Last King Of Scotland Quotes

#1. As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland]. And then, as a person, I had never been to the African continent. So, I knew, personally, it would reshape me.

Forest Whitaker

#2. Learning organizations are possible because, deep down, we are all learners. No one has to teach an infant to learn. In fact, no one has to teach infants anything. They are intrinsically inquisitive, masterful learners who learn to walk, speak, and pretty much run their households all on their own.

Peter M. Senge

#3. I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, even this one, that did not strike me as containing at least some element of the human comedy.

Robert Harris

#5. No matter how big a comedian gets, they're ultimately all just a bunch of nerds with their weird insecurities. You realize these are just the people in high school who were making people laugh.

Reggie Watts

#6. We were so little when you took away all our sins.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. Souls soar high above reach,
Hands extend but never touch,
Words exchanged in dulcet tones,
Tis a fated moment to understand one's truth,
Time to let go.

Truth Devour

#8. I had never been one of those males who were scared of tears. I'd been a Cure fan, for God's sake.

Matt Haig

#9. I do feel that whatever happens, it's important to work with great people and do something great. That's how I feel.

Brandon T. Jackson

#10. Hard writing makes easy reading.

Wallace Stegner

#11. First is a poem, a ballad, out of Scotland. You may say there is no king in it, and of course there isn't, which is what makes it so sad. The last line of the third verse, 'O he might hae been a king' is so sad that I don't like to look at it with both eyes at once.

William Mayne