Plockton Scotland Quotes & Sayings

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree. — Erica Jong

I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesn't always match what you get out. — Joaquin Castro

Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing. — Edward Said

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace. — George Herbert

In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye. — Robert Goddard

True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent. — Mahatma Gandhi

I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does. — Joan Smalls

When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things. — Bo Derek

On our own, we'd look totally normal. Together, we're something else. Together, we're special. — Corey Ann Haydu

Tom Byron is my friend. JJ Michaels is my friend. I haven't heard from him. I don't know what he believes. A couple of other have called but I haven't called them back. — Marc Wallice

One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I wrote in 2009 saying that I was stepping down from my column at "Newsweek" because I wanted to make room for newer, fresh voices out there, I discovered that in the year I was born, 1952, the average life expectancy of an American was 68. I was shocked by that figure and every time I mention it I hear a gasp from somebody in the crowd. Now, of course, we're more or less at 80, so that means that we've gotten 12 additional years. — Anna Quindlen

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie. — Ioan Gruffudd

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