Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.

Alan Hansen

The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

Catherine Helen Spence

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

John Muir

Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.

Alan Cumming

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

Sydney Smith

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

Jack Jones

I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues are closer together. Many albums of mine have been popular in England, but, no hit singles. All the hit singles I had were before I went to England. So, I'm not necessarily more popular in England, I'm just popular in England, and more so for my performances than hit records. But, I enjoy doing concert halls all over America, England, Scotland and Australia.

Gail Porter

Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

Ewan McGregor

There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.

Pete Wentz

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

John Nersesian

I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ass as he completely turned his back on me.

Rahul Dravid

There are some cracks on it but otherwise it looks a good track.

C. S. Lewis

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

Justin Glover

When everybody thinks about a sinkhole, people think of a home crashing into a hole. That's not what we're finding. We're finding it's cracks in driveways, cracks in the walls, settling on the roof and those are being paid as sinkhole claims.

Meg Cabot

Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

Darlene Norman

We've repaired the cracks and they keep cracking.

Ned Yost

One run there is a huge run, ... You give up five, but you still have 27 cracks at a young kid.

Bruce Green

It doesn't look good right now. In the back of the home, there are several cracks throughout the walls of the house.

Francois Rabelais

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

Alexander Mackendrick

Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.

Henry Ian Cusick

I did work a lot in Scots theatre, but I was never really successful in Scottish film or TV until I went down to London - and I had to go to the U.S. to get my big break.