Ackroyds Scottish Quotes & Sayings

I know you do not think very highly of me, but in some circles, I'm quite the thing. — Jessie Clever

This is the way to the museyroom. Mind your boots goan out. — James Joyce

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism. — Paul Broun

Imagination, she figured, just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew. It would be like telling someone what sex felt like, or an orgasm. Impossible. But once you felt it yourself, you could then imagine varying degrees of this new sensation. — Hugh Howey

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never. — Joe Biden

By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code. — Marvin Ammori

If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly - is in the business sector. And it's the locus of innovation. — Peter Senge

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it. — William Wordsworth

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas. — James M. Barrie

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it. — W. Somerset Maugham

There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen. — Art Shell