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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."
"I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens."
"I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself."
"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline."
"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one."
"How old are you?""Ten," answered Tangle."You don't look like it," said the lady."How old are you, please?" returned Tangle."Thousands of years old," answered the lady."You don't look like it," said Tangle."Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see how beautiful I am!"
"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines."
"I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important."
"The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude."
"There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done."
"We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask."
"I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new."
"Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers."
"He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?"
"Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland."
"Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite."
"Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't."
"Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it."
"If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that."
"Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals."
"A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter."
"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
"Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all."
"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."
"Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man."
"No man is useless while he has a friend."
"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
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