Gottland Quotes & Sayings

When efforts were being made for 'Gottland' to appear on the French market, I heard that there were fears that it might not attract any readers. It wasn't certain if anyone in the West would be interested in what a Pole has to say about the Czechs. I could understand that - a representative of one marginal nation writing about another marginal nation is unlikely to be a success. — Mariusz Szczygiel

I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't. — Francesca Lia Block

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. — Oscar Wilde

I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die. — Georges Bernanos

I've written a lot of music, so to be able to put that together and play some shows around the country and elsewhere - that would really be a fun thing to do. — Oscar Isaac

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth. — Arabella Weir

Us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, — Charles Dickens