Scottish Traditional Sayings

#1. Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

Evelyn Glennie

#2. A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

Benjamin Graham

#3. I felt her soul staring deep into mine. Her eyes were full of wondering interest and her beauty was softened by an air of mystery.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#4. Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

Thomas Sadoski

#5. I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.

Ken Bruen

#6. You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

Martin Naughton

#7. Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

Charles Guggenheim

#8. We are not called to give lifestyle tips or the self-help plumbing that today's worldly men and women crave. The Bible says the gospel is the "power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." (Romans 1:16b), so we must proclaim it.

Richard D. Phillips

#9. We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

Denise Mina

#10. Most traditional Scottish food is designed to use things that are just about to go ... off.

Scott Hutchison

#11. The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

Tariq Ali

#12. My uncle" is the natives' usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity in the body of some member of the cat tribe.

Jules Verne

#13. I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

Kathleen Hanna

#14. The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.

Tucker Max

#15. Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.

A. J. Hawk

#16. The class war is over.

Tony Blair