Scottish Traditional Quotes & Sayings

Professor McGonagall had a way of making him feel he must have done something wrong. — J.K. Rowling

Retarded kids are the best. When they ask for an autograph I just fake sign a picture and tell them that it's in invisible ink and it will show up later. They totally buy it. It saves me a fortune in markers. — Zach Braff

But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete.
Either that or a cat burglar. — Julia Quinn

And while it sounds bad to hear that Americans underpay their taxes by nearly one-fifth, the tax economist Joel Slemrod estimates that the U.S. is easily within the upper tier of worldwide compliance rates. — Steven D. Levitt

A soul can weigh a thousand suns or nothing at all. — Dimitri Zaik

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. — James Baker

Most traditional Scottish food is designed to use things that are just about to go ... off. — Scott Hutchison

It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles. — Denise Mina

Because it is a process of alchemy: it transforms a vast manifestation of spiritual energy, which is love, into a physical gesture — Paulo Coelho

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence. — Tariq Ali

The torches flared and died and flared again. The Rocinante was remade a little, the same way it had been over and over through the years. Little changes adding up over time as the ship moved from what it had been to what it would be next. Just like all the people she carried. "You — James S.A. Corey

She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor."
I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after. — Nick Bantock

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts. — Evelyn Glennie