Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Scottish Authors - Page 15
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Sometimes I finish a movie, and I get used to a certain lifestyle, and when that stops, I get a bit lost for about a week. 'No one is bringing me lunch anymore - I've got to go do that myself?' I lose the main point of my focus.
There's just no place like Scotland when the sun is out. I just love coming home.
I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.
If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.
If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
I trained at Celtic when I was a kid. I used to train at Rangers as well. I wore my Celtic shorts underneath my Rangers shorts when I trained there!
A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.
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.
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
I just go where the guitar takes me.
Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
I enjoyed every second at West Ham with the lads and the staff.
I would still consider myself in the elite group of managers. If it was me against someone else, I'd trust myself.
I can't deny that Eric Clapton's and Eddie Van Halen's lead stuff has influenced a stack of people, but for me, it's the rhythm thing that's way more impressive and important to a band.
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.
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.'
I remember when I was training with St Mirren as a young boy Ralston was my Hampden and my Wembley.
I like to indulge all the facets of my personality. There's none that I don't think, in a way, I would want to take away from.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.
Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.
Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.
I have no interest in being a celebrity. I wouldn't go to anything that I wasn't involved in just for the sake of wearing a nice frock and having my picture taken. That part of the business doesn't make me feel very comfortable.
My god! It's a hamster with explosives taped around it's waist!
If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.
The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.
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.
I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver.
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.
In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.
I always leave room for serendipity and chance.
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
And being an actor already means that working with cast as a director, I have a clear understanding of their position and that collaboration is great and useful.
I've been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.
If you are playing at home to Cyprus you have to be on the front foot. You have to get the crowd onside, get at them, create chances and keep the back door closed so you don't lose any silly goals when you are on top in a game.
You've got to be dedicated and throw yourself into parts and auditions in a way that is completely selfless.
It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.
If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.
I think it's strange when people my age and younger get surgery. Somebody's got to play old people.
I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.
Audiences are a wee bit more chatty in New York than in London.
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'
Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.
