Peterhead Quotes

#1. Over the next sixteen years, I would grow close to the ringleaders of the infamous Peterhead Prison Riot and hostage-taking incidents would loom large in my life.

Stephen Richards

#2. She saw the picture of idle fishing boats tied up at Peterhead; further gloom for Scotland and for a way of life that had produced such a strong culture. Fishermen had composed their songs; but what culture would a generation of computer operators leave behind them?

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. Aberdeenshire's Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail finally erupted in to violence that has not been seen or equalled since.

Stephen Richards

#4. I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.

Christian McKay

#5. You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#6. Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

Steve Schirripa

#7. There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with.

Joe Biden

#8. Apply loose powder on top of the foundation under your eyes, so if a little shadow spills, it's easier to wipe off.

Katharine McPhee

#9. Arrogant people beat each other.

Toba Beta

#10. That just seems like a tough thing to do ... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.

Luke Wilson

#11. Austrian Republic established after the war gave an amnesty to 90 per cent of members of the Nazi Party in 1948, and to the SS and Gestapo by 1957.

Edmund De Waal

#12. I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#13. Books should be like magical jewelled boxes. It's the writer's job to tell the story. My job [the artist] is to make you want to pick up the box, and to peer inside.

Thomas Canty

#14. I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.
They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

W.B.Yeats

#15. We didnt come out with any energy. We know were not good enough to let the game come to us. We have to come with high energy, play hard team basketball and do everything the right way. Coming into the season, we all knew we didnt have too much room for error.

Chris Bosh

#16. One hundred years from now, the people who come after us, for whom our lives are showing the way
will they think of us kindly? Will they remember us with a kind word? I wish to God I could think so.

Anton Chekhov

#17. Oh God," Jenna said, "will you shut up and kiss me before I change my mind?

Richard Finney