Quotes About Scots Language

#1. The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction.

Sara Sheridan

#2. I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.

Jess Glynne

#3. She believes that having somebody, to be something to somebody, will balance or make the contrarieties of life easier.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#4. We do not interpret bitcoin's popularity as having a relationship with the public's view of the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy

Janet Yellen

#5. Surely our language is the image of our soul

William Soutar

#6. The Scots language is a mark of the distinctive identity of the Scottish people; and as such we should be concerned to preserve it, even if there were no other reason, because it is ours. This statement requires neither explanation nor apology.

J.Derrick McClure

#7. In those days, I still enjoyed a child's desperate tendency to put sparkles on my whole tribe.

Mary Karr

#8. Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

Hannah Arendt

#9. No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was great - in advertising or by any other medium.

Rochelle B Lazarus

#10. First of all, I know it's all people like you. And that's what's so scary. Individually you don't know what you're doing collectively.

Dave Eggers

#11. There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.

Alexander McCall Smith