Quotes by Scottish/Scotland authors (page 30)

"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair"

"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street"

James McAvoy, Actor

"When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive"

William Barclay, Theologian

"The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity"

William Barclay, Theologian

"I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why"

Douglas Dunn, Poet

"I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else"

Rod Stewart, Musician

"I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star"

Rod Stewart, Musician

"How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?"

Rod Stewart, Musician

"So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative"

Robert Barclay, Writer

"Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price"

Jonathan Potter, Psychologist

"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them"

John Buchan, Politician

"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences"

John Buchan, Politician

"It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are"

James Mackintosh, Judge

"A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on"

Gordon Waller, Musician

"I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to"

Deborah Kerr, Actress

"A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it"

David Mallet, Dramatist

"The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play"

Bon Scott, Musician

"I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop"

Bon Scott, Musician

"I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much"

Bon Scott, Musician

"Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film"

Alan Cumming, Actor

"I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises"

Alan Cumming, Actor

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it"

W. H. Murray, Athlete

"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men"

Francis Wright, Activist

"He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles"

Francis Wright, Activist

"And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind"

Francis Wright, Activist

"I will go anywhere, provided it is forward"

David Livingstone, Explorer

"Fear God and work hard"

David Livingstone, Explorer

"A man with God is always in the majority"

John Knox, Clergyman

"The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food"

William Winwood Reade, Historian

"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance"

Ian McDiarmid, Actor

"There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

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