After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine. — Frederic Chopin
Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together. — Alexander Smith
Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues. — Nicola Sturgeon
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals. — Gerard Butler
The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history. — Nicola Sturgeon
It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies. — J. K. Rowling
Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection. — Nicola Sturgeon
Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore. — Nicola Sturgeon
I'll be arguing for Scotland to vote to stay in the E.U. — Nicola Sturgeon
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. — William Dunbar
The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it. — Alexander McQueen
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. — Maria Monk
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston Churchill
The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer. — Emo Philips
Short Edinburgh Quotes
How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test? — Prince Philip
The bastards murdered half my family. — Prince Philip
Don't become a philosopher before you become rich. — Shahrukh Khan
If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed. — Prince Philip
I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family. — Prince Philip
I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing. — Prince Philip
The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake. — Jennie Bond
You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly. — Prince Philip
My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960. — Davy Jones
It's okay to be confused. Confusion is the route to all the clarity in the world. — Shahrukh Khan
Car Insurance Quotes
Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself. — L. Ron Hubbard
I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point. — Shiv Khera
We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for. — Peter DeGraaf
Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget. Your home or apartment. Your car. Your insurance. If you are overspending on these big monthly bills, then money's draining out of your pocket a lot faster than you can replace it by clipping coupons or buying cheaper coffee. — Elizabeth Warren
I knew a dude whose entire check was going to his car. He didn't care. This is back when the Mustang 5.0 came out in, like, '82. Between paying the note and insurance, I think he had like $40 left. A lot of people knew people because of their car, and not them. — Ice Cube
I went to rent a car, and the guy goes, 'Do you want the extra insurance?' I said, 'Why...am I gonna get into an extra accident? — Robert Schimmel
When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?' — Demetri Martin
The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure. — Michael Caine
The best day of my life was when I turned 25. That's the day my car insurance went down. Yeah, boy, I saved $1,200 that day. — Stephen Jackson
I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that. — Todd Akin
Taxi Quotes
When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money. — Julius Malema
When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once she’s Ava Gardner. It’s the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. I’m never Grace Kelly, I’m always someone who looks like Grace Kelly. — Grace Kelly
EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world. — Claudio Reyna
I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry. — Thuy Trang
I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. — David Foster Wallace
Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking. — John C. Maxwell
Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly. — Vitalik Buterin
I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. — Milos Forman
We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism. — Jason Biggs
If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms; for in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer. — John Gibson Paton
One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people. — Nicola Sturgeon
Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them — Paul Gascoigne
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up. — Jeffrey Archer
I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be. — Nicola Sturgeon
Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections. — Nicola Sturgeon
Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost. — Ken Dodd
As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years. — Frankie Boyle
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. — Billy Connolly
Scotland Quotes
It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it. — Fergus McCann
We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free. — William Wallace
Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher. — Nicola Sturgeon
Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place. — Nicola Sturgeon
An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now. — Nicola Sturgeon
Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments. — Nicola Sturgeon
I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat. — Nicola Sturgeon
I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U. — Nicola Sturgeon
I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland. — Nicola Sturgeon
It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out. — Nicola Sturgeon
London Quotes
I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British. — Hermann Goring
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books. — Malcolm X
I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain. — Sarah Brightman
In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared. — John Mica
It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed. — George VI
On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security. — Otto Schily
My identity comprises more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalized world who speaks English, Arabic, and Urdu. — Maajid Nawaz
During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets. — Maajid Nawaz
The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes. — Kathleen Quinlan
Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don't be bound by rules, don't hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else's dream. — Shahrukh Khan
A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want. — Prince Philip
It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans. — Mark Twain
According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green. — Herbert Wind
It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. — Douglas Alexander
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. — Norman MacCaig
Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story. — Danny Boyle
Live now, live today - don't be bound by rules, live your own dream. — Shahrukh Khan
[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again. — Alexander McCall Smith
Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'. — Shahrukh Khan
This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal. — Paul Nurse
In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism. — Paul Merton
I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings. — Jamie Bell
Do you still throw spears at each other? — Prince Philip
You're not wearing mink knickers,are you? — Prince Philip
Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf. — Prince Philip
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology. — Charles Darwin
For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like. — Muriel Spark
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education. — Rory Bremner
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society. — Irvine Welsh
You look like you're ready for bed! — Prince Philip
Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around. — Rupert Friend
Edinburgh is an experience
A city of enormous gifts
Whose streets sing of history
Whose cobbles tell tales. — Alan Bold
Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it? — Prince Philip
Aren't most of you descended from pirates? — Prince Philip
You managed not to get eaten then? — Prince Philip
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always. — Alan Bold
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education. — Rory Bremner
I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.' — Tom Hiddleston
The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry. — Charles Darwin
Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real. — Nik Kershaw
I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city. — Penelope Keith
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