Quotes About Scottish Highlands

#1. There's no place on earth with more of the old superstitions and magic mixed into its daily life than the Scottish Highlands.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. A perennial problem that has faced the Scottish Highlands is that, time and again, too many of the more talented young people have had to move elsewhere - even abroad - through a lack of opportunities that should have been available.

Charles Kennedy

#3. She spoke the language of the Scottish Highlands (which is like singing).

Susanna Clarke

#4. The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

Caitriona Balfe

#5. I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.

James Black

#6. Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

Alexander Smith

#7. I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say - yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.

Karen Gillan

#8. Ian cleared his throat. "Lady Elizabeth." He reached behind him and handed her a single red rose. "A rose... for the bonniest lass who ever graced the Highlands.

Victoria Roberts

#9. Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

Christopher Isherwood

#10. Filibusters should require 35 senators to ... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.

Evan Bayh

#11. Marriage is rather a silly habit.

John Osborne

#12. I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Katherine Anne Porter

#13. Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

Les Brown

#14. [Connor to Major Wentworth, grandson of King George]
My fathers were lairds in the Highlands when yours were still farmin' kale back in Germany!

Pamela Clare

#15. She loved the way the wind whipped their kilts about. She caught a gorgeous shot of Grant's very toned, hot ass. That would teach him to go without any briefs on a windy day! Maybe he thought she would be so shocked to see him naked beneath the kilt that she'd run off.
Not her.

Terry Spear

#16. Come with me, sweet lass, and I'll make good on me promise to chase ye through the woods like a highlander." Broen spoke in a rich timbre laced with good humor. " Ye there ... Lads, be sporting now and let me ravish this charming creature the way only a Scotsman can!

Mary Wine

#17. Another sharp pang stabbed him in the ribs and made him jolt with a grunt.

"Are you in pain?"

Alex smirked. 'I've been bludgeoned within an inch of me life, ye expecting me to jump up and dance a jig?

Amy Jarecki

#18. Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.

Christopher Paolini

#19. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. I've learned that the heart does not lie. The thought of never being with him or having him in my life again shattered me. Not a day went by that I didn't think of his smile or remember his laugh, his touch, and how that alluring Scottish accent always made my knees tremble.

Victoria Roberts

#21. I hate to play YouTube.

Melissa Harris-Perry