Quotes by Scottish/Scotland authors (page 42)

"I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme"

Irvine Welsh, Novelist

"Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness"

Hugh Miller, Scientist

"It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies"

Hugh MacDiarmid, Poet

"Biography is one of the new terrors of death"

John Arbuthnot, Physicist

"We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets"

David Gill, Scientist

"There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons"

David Gill, Scientist

"Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard"

Hugh Miller, Scientist

"The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living"

Andrew Lang, Poet

"Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study"

Hugh Miller, Scientist

"Law is a bottomless pit"

John Arbuthnot, Physicist

"My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies"

John Arbuthnot, Physicist

"There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors"

Bill Forsyth, Director

"I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself"

Bill Forsyth, Director

"I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done"

Bill Forsyth, Director

"I don't really enjoy filming"

Bill Forsyth, Director

"The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run"

Al Stewart, Musician

"Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal"

Al Stewart, Musician

"Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad"

Bill Forsyth, Director

"At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home"

Bill Forsyth, Director

"You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages"

Al Stewart, Musician

"Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it"

Al Stewart, Musician

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Quotes by Scottish authors