Cleeves Shetland Quotes & Sayings

Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland. — Ann Cleeves

Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence. — Rich Mullins

My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character ... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage. — Beth Ditto

'Shetland' is adapted from the novel 'Red Bones.' The book is based around an archaeological dig, and the mystery starts with the murder of the elderly woman who crofts the land where the dig is happening. — Ann Cleeves

Ethical knowledge is the emplotment of one's life in the theological narrative — James K.A. Smith

You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands. — Ann Cleeves

The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance. — Ann Cleeves

Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic. — Ann Cleeves

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place. — Ann Cleeves

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. — Josh Billings

I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts! — Ann Cleeves

'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories. — Florentijn Hofman

The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention. — Umar