Orkney Scotland Quotes

#1. I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic.

Cecily Strong

#2. I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

Taylor Swift

#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 statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Writing is like breathing...it's something that I must do or perish.

M.G. Lambert

#6. We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

Ivy Baker Priest

#7. I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

Pete Seeger

#8. Private life is always, at certain times, a challenge.

Francois Hollande

#9. Guys are OK ... shake their hand ... Women are special. You can hug 'em.

Bon Scott

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

Walter Traill Dennison

#11. I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

Whitney Houston

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

George Mackay Brown

#13. We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

Dan Millman

#14. I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.

Amanda Peet

#15. No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

Estelle

#16. There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

Henry Ford

#17. I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#18. Illness can be undignified. Suffering does not have a purpose, and relationships are complicated. In the most painful way a person can, Hazel comes to realize, that love does not, cannot, conquer death. What it can do, however, is transcend it.

Chelsey Philpot