Scottish Quotes - Page 4

• I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.

  Michael Scott

  United Nations, United, Nations

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• The settled will of the Scottish people.

  John Smith

  People

  1994 Of the creation of a Scottish parliament, in a speech at the Scottish Labour Conference,11 Mar.

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• I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.

  Arthur Balfour

  Looks, British

  1889 Speech, Glasgow, Dec.

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• If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

  King James I

  Kings, Land, Devil

  Speaking of the Puritans at Hampton Court Conference, January 16, 1604.

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• When I was at Porto my team also played in the UEFA Cup final against a Scottish side - but it was Celtic. I've never seen such emotional people. It was unbelievable!

  Jose Mourinho

  Team, Emotional, People

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• The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

  Edwin Muir

  Mean, Mind, Literature

  1936 Scott and Scotland, introduction.

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• Protestants are the more segmented group. Mainline churches - you have problems in the U.S., Europe, the Scottish Church, the Dutch Protestant Church, the state church in Norway. The evangelicals have been pro Israel, but a major effort is to bring them in on the Palestinian side. A huge problem and the problems are rising.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Israel, Europe, Effort

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• ,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

  Billy Connolly

  Soccer, Football, People

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• Stark looked strong and healthy and totally gorgeous. I was distracting myself by wondering what exactly Scottish guys did, or didn't, wear under those kilts when he turned to face me. His smile lit up his eyes. "I can practically hear you thinking.

  P. C. Cast

  Strong, Eye, Thinking

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

  Billy Boyd

  Land, Scots, Enjoy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people

  Eddie Izzard

  People, Tears, Braveheart

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• My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility of Scotland being a kind of Stormont is a real one. I wrote a book recently about Neil Lennon's year of living dangerously and in the course of it I had to revisit some of my own experiences. Of course, most Scottish people are not swivel-eyed, loyalist sectarians but there are a large number of them. A large six-figure number, and if I were living in Scotland as a Roman Catholic I would be worried about that.

  George Galloway

  Growing Up, Real, Book

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• I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

  David Duchovny

  Blood, Proud

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• I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Father, Son

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• I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

  Ewan McGregor

  Proud, Fierce

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• I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.

  James McAvoy

  Drama, School, Home

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• What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

  John Major

  Conflict, Parliament, Happens

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• I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

  Hugh Laurie

  Scotland, Enlightenment, May

  Interview with Emma Thompson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

  Johann Lamont

  Party, Fighting, Poverty

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• My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Powerful, Real, Blood

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• I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Dancing, Three

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

  Diane Kruger

  Christmas, Football, Night

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• Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

  Florence King

  Exercise, Golf, People

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• I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said anything, just made one of those strange Scottish noises at the back of his throat like someone gargling.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Iron, Numbers

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• We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Scotland, Too Much, Boat

  "Joker apart" by James Harkin, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

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