3610 quotes by scottish authors for you to enjoy

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them. Ewan McGregor

Love Theatre Sex Somebody Fall Stage Pantomime Would Taken Always Child Want Them

Conservative's the last thing I am. Ewan McGregor

Conservative Am Thing Last

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off. Ewan McGregor

Music Band Show Off Think Way Would Able Horn Mainly Perform Drummer Sing French French Horn Off Pipe Show Played

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind. Frances Wright

Time Mind Practice Become Difficult Habits Simplest Principles Been Error Truths Fixed Formed Prejudice Warped Hard Receive

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one. Frances Wright

Ethics First Lose Action Else Beneficial Sight Moral Find Morals Something Something Else Wrong True Ideas Principle Real False Than Departure Substitute Now Right Here Basis Associated Consequent

Attitudes are more important than facts. George MacDonald

Attitude Important More Facts Attitudes Than

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. George MacDonald

You Water Live Then Mud Inch Deep Amusement

There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac! Gerry Rafferty

Life Depression Best Me Writing Darkest My Life Singing Has-Been Some More Through Songs Written Taking Periods Been Effective Very Than Prozac Where Experienced Much Therapeutic Moments

At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts. Guy Berryman

Christmas You School Decision White Think Top Wear Costume Could Hours Most Annual Disco Bedroom Arrive End Shirts Wondering Just Standing Ridiculous Eventually Ever

Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff. Irvine Welsh

People Money Job Nine-To-Five Worry Job Security Security About Stuff Lot

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme. Irvine Welsh

We must take our friends as they are. James Boswell

Our Must Take Friends

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. James Connolly

Society Female Worker Capitalist Capitalist Society Slave

Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.' James McAvoy

Life Work Saying You Man Marriage People Care Will Living Other Way Some About Ongoing Joyful Joyous Without Continue dont Care Commit Just Certificate Help Each Thing

It became clear I wanted to be a development economist. I mean, I said I wanted to work on the economics of poor countries. And I'd actually say that I don't think that was so much about narrowing the gap as about increasing their incomes, which means economic growth, which is really my prime interest. James Mirrlees

Work Economics Think Increasing Say About Economic Economic Growth Clear Development Prime Countries Economist Became Said Wanted Which Interest Mean Poor Poor Countries Much Really Means Gap Incomes Actually Growth

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves. James Thomson

Will Britons Waves Rule Never Slaves

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. Jane Welsh Carlyle

Time Mother Only Loss

When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street. Jimmy Reid

Government Conservative Voting Power Doubt Conservative Government Saw Right-Wing About Brown More Cast Had New Gordon Got Came Up Scotland Labour Thatcher Any Realise Aside Interests Downing Ever Street Margaret Margaret Thatcher

A willing heart adds feather to the heel. Joanna Baillie

Heart Adds Willing Feather Heel

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