Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Scottish Authors - Page 8

Criticism comes with Celtic. If you take it on board, it can make you ill, but if you think: 'No problem', it makes you really thick-skinned.

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

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

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.

Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.

With 'Honeymoon,' it was so intimate, and we literally shot it in something like 20, 24 days. Everything was very rapid and very fast, and so all of us submerged into the deep end and only really came up for air once we had wrapped.

I never thought I'd get to the point where I'd be able to release a proper album, and I absolutely never thought that when I did, I would give it a name as stupid I have, but here we are.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

No one has a better idea of what Chvrches is than we do.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.

A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.

Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.

Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.

I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.

I think after being kicked and slapped on social media a billion times, I had this one time. This lady said I was a deplorable human being, and that hurt.

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.

I'm a man's man. I go out climbing and live outdoors.

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.

When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.

To sing with Led Zeppelin has allowed me to offer the best places I could afford to my family and friends!

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

Filming is long - you get very tired, and your skin breaks out and you get lumps and bumps. It's easier if you're allowed to have bags under your eyes.

I've cried a lot because of women. I cry a lot, as a person.

I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!

My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.

We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as often as we thought, but now we're back, we're going to start using it more. I love the light, the countryside, the language and the fact that children are accepted everywhere. The Italians get passionate about everything, too.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong with them, but they are just a little bit awkward, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, and it makes you want to bring the encounter to an end. I thought, 'Is there a reason for that? What has contributed to their demeanour?'

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

The worst parts of playing a festival are walking. Not a fan of walking. The mud, I can handle. But the walking? No, ta.

If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

You just wear the clothes, you don't let the clothes wear you.

My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish.

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.