Scottish Literature Quotes

#1. The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

Irvine Welsh

#2. The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

Edwin Muir

#3. When one lives in the midst of a lie long enough, it becomes a part of you whether you want to rationally accept it or not.

Leanne Payne

#4. There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.

Albert Camus

#5. The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.

Temple Grandin

#6. Thoughts without their fulfillment - is the beginning of idleness.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.

Margaret Anderson

#8. It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

Marcus Mumford

#9. Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

Harsha Bhogle

#10. We start out as pretty creative beings ... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.

Harvey MacKay

#11. The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Jacques Barzun

#12. Staying present and staying myself in the midst of others is important.

Matt Nathanson

#13. When (Big) Walter was in the right mood, he could be the most ferocious, the most inventive, the most dangerous harp player I ever heard.

Charlie Musselwhite

#14. At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

Douglas Sirk

#15. Oh, for God's sake, Roen! Stop with the Superman crap!"
"Not Superman. Mer. Man ... Superman is fictional. Mermen are real.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff