Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Scottish Authors - Page 3

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.

You will always worry - a wee lad from Edinburgh going up on stage in Glasgow.

I always say: 'If I'm lucky enough to be given the opportunity to work again, that's it, I'm being wheeled on, sitting on a sofa, and someone's going to feed me grapes, and I'm not getting up.'

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

I like people who do what they do incredibly well and are active in their non-acting life, too.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning.

I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

I've always been a bubbly guy who wanted to mix and have some banter when the time is right.

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player.

Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollywood. She was in love with the style and glamour. Sometimes she would come with me to the cinema in the afternoons, and she would say things like, 'I wouldn't mind a peck with Gregory.'

Analytical pharmacology has got an important and exciting future.

No one will ever convince me that I wasn't the best man for a goal if we needed one.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

We've got to have a radical rethink of the way the sport is funded to help the young players develop.

I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.

It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.'

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

I love my shed. It's my space and my mess - and I know where everything is.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Transness is taking control to bring your body more in line with your soul and spirit so the two aren't fighting against each other and struggling to survive.

There is a dark side to Allan Guthrie, but only at the weekends.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

The fans know their football, you can't kid them.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears.

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

I worked as a scaffolder, worked as a chef, tried my hand working in a coffee shop, tried my hand as a joiner.

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.