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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted."
"I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges."
"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
"I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special."
"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."
"It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other."
"Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation."
"The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished the foaming water close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him that the corner of England, which up till now had been his whole universe, was in fact only a scrap of a boundless realm."
"Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."
"In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work."
"The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?"
"It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action."
"Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret " something ancient and precious."
"The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck."
"The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones."
"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."
"Sometimes life isn't what we want, it's what we get."
"Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own."
"I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way."
"There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here."
"I believe the era of the militant lady is back."
"She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent."
"Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy."
"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people."
"There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better."
"Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot."
"From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy."
"On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love."
"The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them."
"Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world."
"I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online."
"I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit."
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