Edinburgh Festival Quotes

#1. I feel at home in Scotland and go back whenever I can. I've played the Edinburgh Festival twice, and I get the train across the Forth Bridge to Lochgelly, just to see it.

Kenneth Cranham

#2. 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

#3. At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession.

Peter Capaldi

#4. I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.

Ian McKellen

#5. I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

Tom Hiddleston

#6. If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Blaise Pascal

#7. pickled in formaldehyde and painted like a whore, / Shrimp-pink incorruptible, not lost or gone before.

Caitlin Doughty

#8. When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

Shannon Miller

#9. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

Michael Anti

#10. That's a good feeling, to save your clients two billion dollars.

Joe Jamail

#11. I wasn't sure what to say. Shall I tell her you're out?

Neil Gaiman

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

Rhys Darby

#13. If you're not keen on crowds, it might be best to give Edinburgh a miss during festival time when it can get extremely busy.

Dexter Fletcher

#14. In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

Henry Van Dyke

#15. Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.

Sara Sheridan

#16. To maintain order in your bureaucratic life, you more or less have to stay home; go away for any length of time and you're always likely to run afoul of some agency or other.

Michel Houellebecq

#17. You know, wanting what you have is supposedly the secret of happiness.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#18. I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.

Aidan Gillen

#19. We didn't evolve; God made us. So I just want to explain to you exactly how that happened ... Some of the things you'll hear do sound a little bit far-fetched. I admit that. Then I found out that the other name for The Bible is The Gospel, so it is all true. Luckily, the clue is in the title.

Ricky Gervais

#20. We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

Jenifer Lewis

#21. It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

Stephen King

#22. Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

David McCullough

#23. Do you see anything Wrong with my teeth?"
"Plenty, I'm surprised you can eat. Maybe that's why your're so little

Lee Child