Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Scottish Authors - Page 19

I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It's there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter.

Glasgow is a city, but it's one with a small-town mentality.

All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.

I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.

I'm as Scottish as they come.

I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it's survived so many different media.

The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

That's how I got my name, you know. The Bonny scot, see?

I took over from Sir Alex, and it was always going to take time, whoever was in charge.

Con Air' and all these movies were what made me want to get into film and if 'Crimson Tide' is on the television, that's me for the next two hours. I'm not leaving.

Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

'Wuthering Heights' is portrayed as a great romantic novel, and when I read it again, I thought, 'How is this romantic? All these people are horrible to each other!'

I grew up in Edinburgh, but my dad's from Glasgow, and my mum's from Chingford in Essex, and I spent time in Ireland, too, so I was always somebody who absorbed accents. I would come back from visits, very much to the annoyance of friends and family, with an accent based on where I'd been.

Going from dialogue-driven 'New Tricks' to a movie like 'The Machine' which has special effects has been brilliant.

I've never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It's all about where you breathe. That's my claim to fame.

I want to inspire people and show people no matter what happens, no matter how much you get knocked down, you can pick yourself up. Just keep pushing forward, keep being positive.

I'm not going to get an Oscar at 30 - that's done. So I'll think of something else.

I need to give a special mention to Declan Rice, I think he's going to go to the top.

I am happy to do anything that comes my way, and I will always do my best in anything that presents itself.

Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.

I like clothes and fashion. It's a hobby for me and I really enjoy being part of it, so it's nice when people say: 'He can dress quite well.'

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.

The day I say I'm famous is the day I sound like a fanny.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.

Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are.

People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence, but it's really a celebration of our existence.

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.

I know people talk about belief. I've never, still don't, have a lot of believe in myself. I know on the night I can do it but I've never had a strong belief.

If everybody leaves smiling and laughing and singing and dancing - and most of all, safe - I've done it.

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

When you leave a club like Liverpool, you have to go somewhere you'll feel comfortable and progress as a player. To come to Stoke was an easy decision.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

I enjoy commentating on the big tournaments for the BBC, the occasional exhibition match, and my business interests.

I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

As a result of my husband's position, there is newfound media attention to my every move. I did not imagine this level of scrutiny, but I understand it is now part of my life.

I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.

We had some glorious nights at Goodison and the fans were superb.

I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel that especially within 'Game of Thrones,' I think that as a show, it is one of the frontrunners for showing dominant female characters and making sure that men answer to women rather than the other way around.

I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.