Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Scottish Authors - Page 5

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the people who stayed. Always worrying about the safety of their children.

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

I like pressure. I put in on myself, and I think I get the best out of myself by doing that.

If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.

The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.

I've always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the '80s when there was an Irish republican bombing campaign there.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

I live in east London, but I'm not cool.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

When I started making films, all the theaters, the screen would slide open the widest possible point, and that would be widescreen. But now, theaters are geared up for around 16:9, so scope is now 'letterboxed.' In a way, if you want the big picture, you shoot 16:9.

We sort of find that music tames the beast, you know.

When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.'

Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.

When streaming came out years ago I loved it. I loved having an audience, I loved chatting away and looking at a live chat and now on Twitch you can actually get a career at it.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

One of my pet hates is people re-Tweeting praise, I loathe it more than anything else in the world.

I thrive on the pressure. I love it. I love the fear factor that goes with it. Perhaps it's strange, but that's just me.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

It's nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it's all about bums on seats and how commercial a film is.

Where I was brought up, if you were walking down the street and you looked at someone and they looked at you, you acknowledged them.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

I've always been blown away by how unique Brian Limond's mind is.

I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.

'Boom Bang a Bang' was a huge part of me, maybe a part that I didn't relish, and there might be psychological reasons for that - I was a child being made to do things I didn't want to do. I was perhaps an elitist, a bit of a snob.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

I've never been spoon-fed for my whole career, I have always done it the hard way as a player and a manager.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

People often ask me if I can justify the amount I earn, and I say I get paid that much because someone thinks it is worth their while to pay me that much, and if I they didn't they'd soon stop. That said, no one's more surprised at the money thing than me.

Working on 'Jekyll' required a lot of concentration and energy. The script is written in a very filmic way most of the time; unusually for television there are a lot of descriptive pages, tiny little fragmented scenes with no dialogue but huge energy.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

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

I've been told to 'man up' after talking about depression on Twitter. Man up means 'be strong because that's what a man is.' And they don't just mean physical strength, they mean emotional strength. What, because men get into fights or go to wars to fight? It should be 'woman up.'

The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

When I get a job, I make phone calls to every single person I know and tell them not to bloody call me.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.

Every single project deserves a different approach.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

No one will die if they don't know how old I am.

Finding yourself can affect how you think about your appearance.

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.