Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rupert Adams

Pre-tournament Scotland were our 50/1 outsiders, so to say this is a shock is an understatement.

Sydney Smith

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

Alistair Darling

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

Alistair Cooke

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

Alex Salmond

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

Alex Ferguson

But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

Douglas Alexander

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Anne Boyd

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

Ambrose Bierce

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

Buddy Rich

No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.

Lars Ulrich

Things are so deep and people are always trying to read shit into things that real simple. Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

David Mamet

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

Ambrose Bierce

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Andy Warhol

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Andre Gide

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Robert Mitchum

Movies bore me; especially my own.

Mason Cooley

Never ask a bore a question.

Martin Meehan

At a time when so much of the world questions our commitment to our own values, I urge my colleagues to show the American people and the world that we will defend our country but we will do so in a way that protect those rights that make it worth defending.

Gordon Brown

A strong European, a committed internationalist, and a distinguished foreign secretary with friends in every country, he will be mourned greatly not only by his family, friends, colleagues and constituents, but in every continent of the world.

Will Smith

They're your relatives, sons, daughters ... colleagues and employees. Just people with a dream.

Nick Park

My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.

Sen. McCoy

People had some preconceived notions about what my purpose was. Over time, being there and working with my colleagues in the Senate and the House . . . that falls away as the defining characteristic." ()

Todd Tiahrt

I vote in favor of protecting traditional marriage between one man and one woman today and I encourage my colleagues to vote for H.J. Res. 88.

John Surma

So we have no problem with imports. Our position is what it's always been, we're in favor of free trade as long as it's fair trade, whether it involves our NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) colleagues or any others around the world. So we're committed to maintaining full trade law enforcement.

Ayad Allawi

Saddam and his colleagues are not the giants that the media sometimes talks about. Saddam sent us an oral message in which he begged for mercy. He said that they were working in the public interest and did not mean any harm,

Kenneth Clarke

I shan't lose my paunch. I like my relaxed lifestyle. I like food. Because of my relaxed lifestyle I haven't suffered from the stress my colleagues do. I seem able to outlast them all!