Scottish Author Quotes

#1. No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder.

Stephen Richards

#2. Happiness isn't a goal. It's a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#3. A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.

Natalie Dormer

#4. The screws are just as bad as us, maybe not now but certainly in the past they used to beat you with their riot batons, strip you naked, cuff your hands behind your backs and then take shots of kicking you in the head and body until you were knocked out.

Stephen Richards

#5. The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then.

Stephen Richards

#6. The American government will be whatever we all make of it.

Megan Smith

#7. As equally as one may use size, the cunning James Crosbie was once classified as the most dangerous man in Scotland, notorious for his daring bank robberies and escaping on a bicycle. He was the criminal mastermind behind many successful crimes carried out throughout the UK.

Stephen Richards

#8. Dr Danson made a series of claims about violent assaults on three prisoners by staff at Barlinnie. Three prison officers subsequently appeared in court charged with assaulting inmates.

Stephen Richards

#9. Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.

M. Russell Ballard

#10. It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.

Thomm Quackenbush

#11. 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

#12. When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#13. The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he had received the equivalent injuries of someone who was involved in a car crash.

Stephen Richards

#14. It takes the same effort to dream small or dream big. Dream big!

Mani Maran

#15. You know, in a society where children just about have to seek parental permission to sit on Santa's knee, the word 'paedophile' should send more shivers up your spine than the word 'druggie'.

Stephen Richards

#16. You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.

Vernon Howard

#17. The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which.

Gian-Carlo Rota

#18. I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.

Carly Fiorina

#19. Can you add a quote from yourself? That would be pointless, what sort of fool would do that?

RJ Barker

#20. The riot screws didn't give a monkey's about the state he was in, no sir. They dragged him by his hair in to the first cell that was opened, where he was stripped and beaten.

Stephen Richards

#21. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.

Roger Ebert

#22. Gram, you should have been a romance writer." Creighton wasn't her soul mate. The man was probably just lonely, living in such a remote area.
"You know, I might just give that a try. Just think, Effie Munro, erotic-romance author pens "hawt" stories from her beautiful Scottish estate.

Vonnie Davis

#23. At the back of my mind I wanted to be a journalist when I grew up since I didn't seem to be getting any better at goalkeeping.

Ian Colquhoun

#24. 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

#25. Thirteen years have past since 1993, and I still have not seen one single book, documentary or anything to the biggest epidemic in Scottish, British prison history. I would go as far and say, no other prison in the world had fourteen men catching the HIV virus at the same time.

Stephen Richards