Edinburgh Quotes - Page 3

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

Jeffery Deaver

Doe, Toronto

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During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.

Charles Darwin

Determination, Book, Science

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According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.

Herbert Wind

Golf, Caddies, Green

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After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

Frederic Chopin

Men, People, Blind

Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.375, Courier Corporation

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Edinburgh is an experience
A city of enormous gifts
Whose streets sing of history
Whose cobbles tell tales.

Alan Bold

Cities, Tales, Enormous

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Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

Nik Kershaw

Real, Good Things, Polite

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A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.

Walter Scott

Philosophy, Philosophical, Party

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When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Jeffrey Archer

Mps, Land, Two

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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

Alan Rickman

Home, Way, Feels

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The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

Country, Eye, College

Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.109

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The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

Charles Darwin

Dull, Lectures, Chemistry

Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11717, Delphi Classics

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I'd always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh. There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham's sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been. Fantastic guitar player. And he's had a strong influence on me all the way through.

Bert Jansch

Girl, Strong, Hero

Interview with Robin Cook, www.furious.com. December 2006.

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When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

Rhys Darby

Festivals, Fringe

Source: www.avclub.com

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I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were at Newcastle and Edinburgh. Looking up to them the whole time, I wanted to go to university and live the life they were living, having a blast, and I didn't get in. I didn't get into any of the universities I wanted to go to.

Rose Leslie

Brother, Live Life, Older Sister

Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine what that would be. But Toronto, the last few times I've been here, what always comes up is Chicago and West Berlin. It's a big, sprawling city beside a lake, of a certain age and a certain architectural complexity. But the high-end retail core looks more like West Germany than the Magnificent Mile. Yonge Street is like K-Damm. There's an excess of surface marble and bronze: it's Germanic and as pretentious as pretentious can be.

William Gibson

Lakes, West Germany, Cities

Source: craphound.com

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I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.

Alan Titchmarsh

Home, Blow, Jewels

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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As with the bud, so with the blossom. A boy is the only thing known from which a man can be made. I hope that we as parents are teaching our children that they are the sons and daughters of God, and that they have the capacity to become like him. It was the old Edinburgh weaver who prayed, 'O God, help me to hold a high opinion of myself.' Likewise I would counsel young people to hold a high opinion of themselves, to remember who they really are, and to put their faith in their Heavenly Father.

Paul H. Dunn

Daughter, Children, Father

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I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

Peter Hambleton

Beautiful, Art, Cities

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Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.

Patrick Grant

Hate, Integrity, Years

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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

J. K. Rowling

Thinking, Cities, People

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So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him to do a very bad Sherlock Holmes impersonation throughout a good portion of a train ride to Edinburgh, Scotland. And Wayne seemed so wrong she hadn't even tried. Hale was Hale. And not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are some things that can be given but never stolen. Of course, that didn't stop her from trying.

Ally Carter

Thinking, Scotland, Knowing

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When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

Paul Merton

Oysters, Guy, Festivals

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In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism.

Paul Merton

Couple, Men, Comedian

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This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

David Nicholls

Cities, Sound, Might

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It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.

Ian Rankin

Welcome

"Exit Music". Book by Ian Rankin, 2010.

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