Nocht Quotes & Sayings

I can't handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me. — Junior Seau

I did so obediently, and waited for her approval. — Daphne Du Maurier

Art is an extension of friendship, a reaching out to the world. — Marty Rubin

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been. — Michael Burgess

Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind inflat in uther mennis eiris. — Robert Henryson

Within the last few months feelings had been stirred in me so much more potent than any they could raise - pains and pleasures so much more acute and exquisite had been excited than any it was in their power to inflict or bestow. — Charlotte Bronte

Stories to read are delitabill (delightful)
Suppose that they be nocht but fable (fiction)
Then should stories that suthfast were (truthful)
- And they were said in good manner -
Have double pleasure in hearing.
The first pleasance is the carping (reading aloud)
And the tothir the suthfastness
That shows the thing richt as it was; — John Barbour

The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald. — Robert Henryson

This cackit place ... They poor darkies. A greeshie way to go." He clenched his fists. "I'm a snool, a glaikit sumph. Nocht but rain, howdumdied all day o'boot. I've lost my noddle. Camsteerie bloody country." He gave a harsh laugh. "No strunt. Any haughmagandie? Never. Dunged into the ground. ... I could greet I tell you" ... He could only understand one word in three, but this time he knew how the little man felt. — William Boyd

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light ... — Carol Shields