Top 60 Quotes About Fergus
#1. Fergus Claudel Fraser, he said, slowly and clearly.
Diana Gabaldon
#2. While Fergus was possessed of dark good looks and a dashing manner that might well win a young girl's heart, he lacked a few of the things that might appeal somewhat more to conservative Scottish parents, such as property, income, a left hand, and a last name.
Diana Gabaldon
#3. We're going to die," Pip declared.
"Maybe," Terry replied.
"Damn," was all Fergus managed.
Three shook her head. "We won't die.
Addison Lane
#4. As for Fergus. He had a habit which Maud was not experienced enough to recognise as a common one in ex-lovers of giving little tugs at the carefully severed spider-threads or puppet-strings which had once tied her to him.
A.S. Byatt
#5. Father Fogden blinked, brought back to attention. He made an unsuccessful attempt to stifle another belch, and transferred his bright blue gaze to Fergus. "You have a name, too? And a cock?" "Yes," said Fergus, wisely choosing not to be more specific.
Diana Gabaldon
#6. If there is one regret that I have had in my life, it is that I never fathered any children. There are times, when I look at what Fergus and Beryl have produced, when I consider myself fortunate, but there are also times when it breaks my heart.
Derek Landy
#7. Women are never too old to wear pink," Fergus replied firmly. "I have heard les mesdames say so, many times.
Diana Gabaldon
#8. Talkin' like dogs fightin'," he explained. "Grrrr! Wuff!" He growled, shaking his head in illustration like a dog worrying a rat, and I saw Fergus's shoulders shake in suppressed hilarity. "Scots for sure," I said, trying not to laugh.
Diana Gabaldon
#9. Tanith: have you called the police?
fergus: they, uh, they said theyd call by this afternoon.
tanith: tell them not to bother ... im his doctor.
beryl: what kind of doctor dresses in brown leather?
tanith: the kind that looks good init
Derek Landy
#10. A king is but a foolish labourer
Who wastes his blood to be another's dream.
-from Fergus and the Druid
W.B.Yeats
#11. Whatever you say about Fergus McCann, if this [Celtic Park] is the legacy, then I am absolutely delighted with it.
Martin O'Neill
#12. Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her
father's other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as he
nodded sadly and spoke sombrely and pocketed the silverware
when he thought no one was looking
Derek Landy
#13. Mum, Dad, Fergus... this is Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy
#14. So you, me, Fergus, Lorcan, and Lennex are going to change the world, are we?
Not the world. Just the country. And to change the country you only have to change a few minds.
Cecelia Ahern
#15. I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
Fergus Henderson
#16. I want people to judge me on what we have achieved after five years. I will go back to my home in Bermuda, play some golf and live a healthier life.
Fergus McCann
#17. When we score a sublime goal I'm as happy as anyone but you don't get to enjoy a game. You can't possibly. The game's too important to enjoy.
Fergus McCann
#18. I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.
Fergus Henderson
#19. Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.
Jim Fergus
#20. Being a Celtic supporter is not always easy, but it is always worthwhile.
Fergus McCann
#21. I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.
Fergus Henderson
#22. A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
Fergus Henderson
#23. It's not just a football club. Celtic means so much to so many people.
Fergus McCann
#24. You cannot change the minds of the mindless. But that doesn't mean you just admit that's the way we have to live.
Fergus McCann
#25. That charity fund, inside and outside Scotland is a very important identity of Celtic Football Club.
Fergus McCann
#26. Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!
Fergus Henderson
#27. Celtic is a community institution the supporters are entitled to be proud of.
Fergus McCann
#29. It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it.
Fergus McCann
#30. The law of the jungle which I learned at a young age, and have been trying to escape ever since, is that we what we must to survive.
Jim Fergus
#31. My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.
Fergus Henderson
#32. Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.
Jim Fergus
#33. I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty
no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal.
Jim Fergus
#34. Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
Fergus Henderson
#35. The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primaevl solitude would be like talking in church.
Jim Fergus
#36. You can't live on the hope of a television contract and play in a stadium with nobody there.
Fergus McCann
#37. I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.
Fergus Henderson
#38. Ah but Art never fails anyone, magic and medicine may certainly fail, but never Art.
Jim Fergus
#39. Footnoting references, signalling quotations, and so on were no part of a 13th-century scholar's duty. He could recycle his own and his predecessor's work without a qualm. He knew nothing of copyright and plagiarism, which are 17th-century inventions.
Fergus Kerr
#40. For all the prizes, recitals and honours that grace Gordon Walker's glittering career, he still likes nothing more than coming home back to play. "I do like my Burns Suppers in Ayrshire. I've piped in the haggis, addressed it and then piped it back out again.
Fergus Muirhead
#41. can't help but think once again what a foolish, loutish creature is man. Is there another on earth that kills for the pure joy of it?
Jim Fergus
#42. I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will
a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul ... the bloodiest of mutilations.
Jim Fergus
#43. I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
Fergus Henderson
#44. I'm just a footnote in the grand scheme of things. Brother Walfrid was the visionary who started things and his is a name that should stay in people's minds.
Fergus McCann
#45. Raki is bad enough, but it's nectar compared with pulque.
Fergus Hume
#46. If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.
Fergus Henderson
#47. That's exactly the good thing about the Injun life
you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'
which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks
Jim Fergus
#48. And no more turn aside and brood
Upon love's bitter mystery;
W.B.Yeats
#49. How odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.
Jim Fergus
#50. Celtic supporters want to be proud of their Club. That's all they want. It is what they deserve.
Fergus McCann
#51. Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?
Jim Fergus
#52. Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.
Fergus Henderson
#53. Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
Fergus Henderson
#54. I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.
Fergus Henderson
#55. I knew then that when we had crested that final tortuos pass in the rocks and dropped down into this valley, we had crossed a threshold into another world, a world with its own sun and moon, and its own separate race of man.
Jim Fergus
#56. We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.
Fergus Henderson
#57. For their part, the savage men appear to spend an inordinate amount of time lounging around their lodges, smoking and gossiping among themselves ... so that it occurs to me that perhaps our cultures are not so different after all: the women do all the work while the men do all the talking.
Jim Fergus
#58. What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.
Fergus Henderson
#59. I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.
Fergus Henderson
#60. I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
Fergus Henderson
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