Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Carlyle

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

Sara Sheridan

Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.

Winston Churchill

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

Samuel Johnson

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

Ewan McGregor

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

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.

Wislawa Szymborska

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!

Wislawa Szymborska

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Will Rogers

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

Eric Hoffer

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

Louis Tomlinson

Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?

Greg Boyle

God can get tiny, if we're not careful.

Darren Shan

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Alain de Botton

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Edwidge Danticat

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Ronald Harwood

He wanted to make a picture for children. So I read a lot of stuff and he read a lot of stuff. . . . But I don't like all those fantasy books, I'm not good at 'Lord of the Rings' and the 'Harry Potters.' . . . It's not my world. I like things to do with reality and the world we live in -- or lived in.

Robin Hobb

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

Frederik Pohl

There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does.

Carl Olsen

We make fun of each other, but it is a group of friends, and we are not any more competitive than a fantasy football league. There are no prizes for winning, but people still want to win.

Richard O'Brien

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Sarah Zettel

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

Gurdjieff Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Cassandra Clare

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

Molly Quinn

I love, love, love fantasy, like Lord of the Rings and things like that.