Quotes About Hogg

#1. Here we supped ... , having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

John Evelyn

#2. I used to go to a lot of Pam Hogg shows. The thing about London Fashion Week is that, generally, we're on tour and traveling around, so it's very rare that I actually catch it. I like to go to Burberry because I know a few girls who work there. I kind of follow friends.

Alison Mosshart

#3. I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.

Margot Asquith

#4. The white dress, made of billowy fabric like a cargo parachute, made her look like the female Boss Hogg trying out for a part in a community theater presentation of Brigadoon.

Jon Konrath

#5. I anticipate with joy the approaching period when the stigmas of poverty and pride so liberally bestowed on the highlanders by our southern gentry will be as inapplicable to the inhabitants of that country as of any in the island.

James Hogg

#6. I have a deep-seated belief that marriage is between a man and a woman exclusively.

John Hogg

#7. Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

James Hogg

#8. The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.

James Hogg

#9. I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#10. We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.

James Hogg

#11. One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#12. With regard to the work itself, I dare not venture a judgment, for I do not understand it.

James Hogg

#13. As soon as I arrived, I went to the head inn, held by Mr. Creighton, a silly, despicable man, but privileged in having an excellent wife.

James Hogg

#14. Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

James Hogg

#15. Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

James Hogg

#16. He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.

James Hogg

#17. If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.

James Hogg

#18. I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#19. The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

James Hogg

#20. Actors were the first people to accept me.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#21. He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

James Hogg

#22. A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

James Hogg

#23. Auld John may dee a beggar in a hay barn, or at the back of a dike, but he sall aye be master o' his ain thoughts an' gie them vent or no, as he likes

James Hogg

#24. I found Mick Jagger ... very bright. I always liked him very much and still do.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#25. One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#26. The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

James Hogg

#27. ..And if I'm looking for a definition of love then perhaps this is it. That another person can help fill the empty space inside us. Even when they're gone.

Nicholas Hogg

#28. I never go but where I have some great purpose to serve," returned he, "either in the advancement of my own power and dominion or in thwarting my enemies.

James Hogg

#29. Start as you mean to go on.

Tracy Hogg

#30. Will you no come back again?
Better loved you'll never be,
And will you no come back again?

James Hogg

#31. I have become my own father.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#32. Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!

James Hogg

#33. An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.

James Hogg

#34. That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!

James Hogg

#35. It strikes me, my dear, that religious devotion would be somewhat out of place tonight

James Hogg

#36. Hold, Sir, I say! None of your profanity before me. If I do evil to anyone on such occasions, it is because he will have it so; therefore, the evil is not of my doing.

James Hogg

#37. Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

James Hogg

#38. I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#39. And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#40. What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

James Hogg

#41. I'm honest, I'm fair and I'm sure, as time progresses, those who don't believe that will find it to be true.

John Hogg

#42. O, love, love, love!
Love is like a dizziness;
It winna let a poor body
Gang about his biziness!

James Hogg

#43. Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level with myself I feel myself quite uneasy and generally have a headache.
(Letter to Sir Walter Scott, 25 July 1802)

James Hogg

#44. I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#45. It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.

James Hogg

#46. ... he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.

James Hogg

#47. Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going.

Sara Marie Hogg

#48. I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#49. When we first put 'Let It Be' out, I had to cut out a lot of stuff that I really like and wanted to stay in there. The stuff in the new DVD has a lot of the stuff that had to be cut out. So for me, it's like the egg is now complete.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg