Orkney Quotes

#1. In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

George Mackay Brown

#2. The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.

George MacKay

#3. Did you know that on one of the islands of Orkney, in the North of Scotland, there are some runes that when translated turned out to be Viking graffiti? Eight feet up a wall it says "A tall Viking wrote this." You gotta love that.

Barbara Sher

#4. The King's daughter, the Princess Gemdelovely must be given to the Stoorworm.

Walter Traill Dennison

#5. Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.

A. Philip Randolph

#6. We can't fully encompass our motivational and inspirational awareness without fully understanding our purpose in life.

Matthew Donnelly

#7. I am truly not an axiologist, but I am concerned about the value of life in all of its forms and shapes.

Debasish Mridha

#8. If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?

Beatrice Webb

#9. I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

John Pople

#10. You walk into my bedroom at night, it looks like a nightclub. There's all kinds of lighting effects, there's all kinds of music. I want them to feel like they're in for a show. I believe in romance.

Andrew Dice Clay