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I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy... I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.


Archie Panjabi


#blond #blue-eyed #boy #brothers #come

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.


Walter Scott


#cottage #dark #door #lake #many

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.


Douglas Dunn


#aspects #boasting #complacency #confidence #expression

Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all the proceeds to go to charity. Back in 1998 I never dreamt I personally I would be in the position that I could set up a large charitable foundation and personally do things for charity, and I’ve done other charity books already.


J.K. Rowling


#harry-potter #j-k-rowling #pottermore #the-scottish-book #charity

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.


Diana Gabaldon


#epic #fraser #graphic-novel #outlander #romance

If ye canna see the bright side o' life, polish the dull side


Christina Dodd


#funny #scottish #funny

An old liar told me here To think ahead and save my money. I should have spent it on ribbons. I should have learned the tune my dead grandfather played When the daft wife heard him resounding In the deep pine woods in early November.


Menzies McKillop


#money #poetry #scottish #life

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.


Ian Hamilton Finlay


#am #artist #asked #consider #embarrassing

Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.


Keith O'Brien


#country #crucial #decide #forward #hold

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.


Camille Paglia


#assertive #began #both #british #canada