Top 100 Angus Quotes
#1. Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.
Alexander McCall Smith
#2. Is he all right?" Jane asked.
"Oh, sure, probably losing a fight against a squirrel," Angus said.
"Or his shadow ...
Michelle M. Pillow
#3. My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
Joanna Lumley
#4. I have six brothers, and in the past I've done quite a few girlie films, like 'Wild Child' and 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' - so when they've been to those, they've been incredibly embarrassed. They won't be embarrassed going to see 'Black Death' - I reckon they're going to love it.
Kimberley Nixon
#5. Angus looked at Hamish. "I hate it when Mom and Dad fight."
Hamish smoothed his brother's messy hair. "Me too.
Ally Carter
#6. It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.
Alexander McCall Smith
#7. Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.
Ally Carter
#8. In the end they worked out that Angus must have sneaked into Naomi's love parlor before his trouser snake addendums were, you know ... adjusted. Super-Cat!!! He is without doubt the 007 of the cat world.
Louise Rennison
#10. What in bloody hell is going on back there?" Angus boomed. "Some kind of cross-species orgy!
Lisa Carlisle
#11. The first vehicle was an unmanned two-ton, hundred-thousand-dollar steel-caged contraption named ANGUS (for Acoustically Navigated Geophysical Underwater System), which had powerful strobe lights, a collection of thermometers, and, most critically, high-definition cameras. Late
Simon Winchester
#12. A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.
Alistair MacLeod
#13. I'm a guitar player first. So my first hero was Angus Young from AC/DC. I used to copy every move that he did, play every lick that he would. I knew I wanted to be some kind of a rocker, back in the day.
Phillip Phillips
#14. Output per worker in England did not increase at all between 1500 and 1800, according to the estimates by Angus Maddison in his 2006 volume The World Economy, a trusted source.
Edmund S. Phelps
#15. I have quite an eclectic taste in music. I like Angus & Julia Stone; they are an Australian brother/sister duo. I like Adele. She is phenomenal.
Luke Mitchell
#16. Lowered, rearing away from the suit. Georgia laughed. "It is haunted," she said. She held the suit in front of her and waved it back and forth, walking it through the air toward Angus, flapping it at him, a bullfighter with cape. She moaned as she closed in on him, the
Joe Hill
#17. Can I see you outside for a second?" Kat glared at Hale, then walked to the patio doors and out onto the veranda.
As Hale closed the door behind him, Kat heard Angus say, "Ooh, Mom and Dad are going to fight now.
Ally Carter
#18. The forges of friendship, thought Angus, may be busy ones, but their dorrs are always open.
Alexander McCall Smith
#19. Angus ... had hitherto maintained hilarious ease from motives of mental hygiene ...
G.K. Chesterton
#20. Charles sat in lone splendor on a huge couch in the middle of Angus's spacious living room
while the other ten or twelve people present made themselves at home on the other side of the room.
Anna surveyed the scene. "Okay," she said. "Who's been being a grouch?
Patricia Briggs
#21. James Van Der Beek and I go way back. We were in the movie 'Angus' together in 1994 or 1995, so I've known him for a million years.
Kevin Connolly
#22. Angus was courting me with lines that stabbed deep in lonely, barren places. Like an unfair conqueror, he was delivering his words with an accent that had me dreaming of castles and lochs, and strong thighs under a rough kilt.
Cheryl R Cowtan
#23. Are we facing a new Dark Age, Angus? Possibly, Lou. A dark age in which our concentration spell is this long.
Alexander McCall Smith
#24. She has a habit of downplaying trouble. I don't suppose she told you about Tony Vance or Sheldon Kaufman? They were a couple of sorcerers in her last crew." Angus shook his head. "Not a word. What happened to 'em?" "I did.
Craig Schaefer
#25. Angus skidded to a stop and lifted his jaw as if sensing he was being watched. He looked in her direction and instantly covered his manhood as his eyes caught Jane's shocked face in the tree limbs. "Oh, lassie."
"Oh, naked man," Jane teased before she could stop herself.
Michelle M. Pillow
#26. Angus thought about this. She was right. That was why our national conversation was so bad. Courtesy had been abandoned in favour of the put-down, the attack, the calculated sound bite. What sort of national conversation was that? The answer came to him immediately: none.
Alexander McCall Smith
#27. Angus is amusing himself by ambushing the postman. Och aye, they may have taken his trouser snake addendums, but they cannae tak his freedom!!
Louise Rennison
#28. I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.
Blake Anderson
#29. Connor, if ye doona kill this fledgling, I will. The lad is begging for it.
-Angus McKay about Gregori Holstein
Kerrelyn Sparks
#30. If it works, it works,' Kat told him.
'And if it doesn't?' he asked.
She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.'
'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison.
And with that, it was decided.
Ally Carter
#31. Gregori leaned forward. "Can you believe it? We're all a bunch of mutants! Just like the Ninja Turtles."
Angus blinked. "We - we're like ... turtles?"
Gregori burst out lauging.
Ian shook his head, grinning.
Connor snorted. "Nay. We have vampire DNA. No turtles.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#32. It was an annoying name to have. People tended to spell in Mangus, rhymes with Angus. I always corrected them: No, it's Magnus, rhymes with swagness. At which point they would stare at me blankly.
Rick Riordan
#34. ... Angus had a "pretty normal childhood." Bertie had immediately mistrusted him. Nobody had a normal childhood.
Kate Atkinson
#35. 'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.
Chris Owen
#36. She doubted if Angus had any inkling of how he really had saved her. He had given her adventure and escape from home, and that was one better than rescuing her from shadowy mountain whispers or a watery grave.
A.E. Mayer
#37. So, what is it that I bring to her?" [Angus]
"Strength. Security. Stability. All the best 's' words." [Truman]
Truman smirked and so did Angus.
Elizabeth Finn
#38. I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.
Terry Pratchett
#39. After four hundred and ninety-three years of teleporting from one place to another, Angus Mackay still felt an urge to peek under his kilt to ensure everything had arrived in fine working condition. There were some areas where a man, vampire or not, would hate to find himself shortchanged.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#40. I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King ... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
Angus Young
#41. It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.
Ally Carter
#42. The machinery joining the vats was a nightmare jumble of pipes and flanges. Since you couldn't really hire a professional plumber to set up your deathtraps, some clever techie on Angus Caine's payroll must have done it himself with whatever parts he had on hand.
Craig Schaefer
#43. You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
William Golding
#44. Ye are different, Emma. I doona need ye in order to survive. But surviving is no' the same as living. Or the same as feeling human again. I am alive when I'm with you. Ye feed my soul. (Angus MacKay)
Kerrelyn Sparks
#45. Hamish's right arm was around Angus's waist as the two of them tangoed past.
Ally Carter
#46. That's why we're going to disrupt the lunch," she (Kat) said.
"You know," Angus said, "I've got a little C-four that I've been saving for a rainy
"
"We're not blowing up my company, Angus," Hale said.
"Righto. Carry on, Kitty.
Ally Carter
#47. Oh dear. I have just seen Angus hunkering down in the long grass. He's stalking their poodle. I'll have to intervene to avert a massacre. Oh, it's OK, Mrs. Next Door has thrown a brick at him.
Louise Rennison
#48. Where's the bull? (Callie)
Tied to a tree, eating my boot. I'm just glad my leg is no longer in it. (Sin)
Lad, how did you manage it? (Angus)
I run fast when chased by large bulls. (Sin)
Kinley MacGregor
#49. I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
Angus Wilson
#50. One day I was driving down the farm track in the pickup,with two of the little boys, aged about four or five, sitting beside me. One of them turned to me conversationally and said, "Baba, don't worry. When you get old one day you'll be sitting here where we are, and we'll be driving you around!
Angus Buchan
#51. I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.
Angus King
#52. Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes.
Angus King
#53. You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.
Raspberry Jam
Angus Wilson
#54. We cannot keep the Good News to ourselves any longer! Time is running out!
Angus Buchan
#55. Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.
Angus Young
#56. The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.
Angus Wilson
#57. If God is calling you to do something, do it! You can't run away from God!
Angus Buchan
#58. I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.
Angus Young
#59. What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.
Angus T. Jones
#60. Good evening and welcome to Have I Got News for You, the show that's done for Friday and Saturday nights what ten pints of lager does for Sunday mornings, although I wouldn't know, being more partial to cocaine personally. Allegedly.
Angus Deayton
#61. I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.
Angus Young
#62. The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
Angus Wilson
#63. People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.
Angus Wilson
#64. Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.
Angus Young
#65. There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.
Angus Buchan
#66. I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church.
Angus T. Jones
#67. We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see ...
Angus Young
#68. My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about a piece of legislation.
Angus King
#69. When you are thankful in all things, all of a sudden it's a new day!
Angus Buchan
#70. You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.
Angus Young
#71. I have a Twitter account; I have a fantastic Facebook page.
Angus King
#72. Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.
Angus MacLean
#73. Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.
Angus T. Jones
#74. All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.
Angus Wilson
#75. Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service ... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse
Angus Young
#76. I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.
Angus King
#77. Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a presupposition of doing science. Rather it is a metaphysical and sometimes religious stance that some people have toward science.
Angus J.L. Menuge
#78. Without qualification, I am grateful to and have the highest regard and respect for all of the wonderful people on 'Two and Half Men' with whom I have worked and over the past ten years who have become an extension of my family.
Angus T. Jones
#79. Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.
Angus T. Jones
#80. The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.
Angus Wilson
#81. A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well.
Angus Stone
#82. I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.
Angus Young
#84. We sometimes cannot conceive of how the new paradigm could be true or see the reasons to reject an old paradigm until we have started looking at the world through the lens of the new paradigm.
Angus J.L. Menuge
#85. I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bible and go with the evangelism class.
Angus T. Jones
#86. Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
Angus Wilson
#87. There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
Angus Young
#88. The only coherent explanation of contingent intentionality is the existence of some necessary being, an agent from whom all other intentionality derives but who does not require further explanation.
Angus J.L. Menuge
#89. The roots of art and play lie very close together.
Angus Wilson
#90. Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.
Angus Young
#91. Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.
Angus T. Jones
#92. My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.
Angus King
#93. I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
Angus Young
#94. I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first.
Angus Loughran
#95. If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.
Angus King
#96. And I know what it is that's going to destroy the world. Lack of communication - reciprocal communication: cultural, political, intellectual - whatever you like. But more, it's snobbery and self-deceit, which are artificial, protective barriers that prevent communication.
Angus Stewart
#97. Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.
Angus Young
#98. As we befriend our crush and get to know him better, make sure that you are honest and true all the time. Do not be someone you are not just to impress him.
Angus T. Jones
#99. I think it's important to also realize that this isn't a case of Apple being asked to simply flip a switch or, you know, plug in a wire from one place to another. They're being asked to write new software that doesn't exist. They purposefully did not create this kind of backdoor ...
Angus King
#100. I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it, and filling your head with filth.
Angus T. Jones
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