Glasgow Quotes

• Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

  Nik Kershaw

  Real, Edinburgh, Good Things

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• The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

  Billy Connolly

  Nuclear, Looks, Comedy

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• As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Airports

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• The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer.

  Emo Philips

  People, Tough, Scots

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

  Zaha Hadid

  Nice, Thinking, Cities

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• Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

  Alex Kapranos

  Fashion, Media, Musical

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• For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Greggs bakers, though, Ill say that. The opening of the 1977 Star Wars movie was possibly the only time Ive seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.

  Darren Boyd

  Stars, Block, War

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• I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

  Gerard Butler

  Guitar, Law, Training

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• At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

  Bill Forsyth

  Mother, Home, Moments

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• Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.

  Thomas Keneally

  Dog, Australia, Ships

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• 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

  Fun, Rocks, Training

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• I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

  Bill Forsyth

  Theatre, Shy, Six

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• Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

  Alasdair Gray

  Song, Novel, Halls

  Alasdair Gray, Joy Hendry (1991). “Chapman”

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• London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted."

  Keith Murray

  Fun, London, Speak

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. January 16, 2014.

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• Welcome to Glasgow - the city where we punch people who are on fire.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Fire

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• The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.

  Ken Dodd

  Night, Empires, Trouble

  In 'The Times' 7 August 1965

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• Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

  Alasdair Gray

  Church, Half, Lasts

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• I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'

  Alex Kapranos

  Impact, Sides, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Night

  1965 Television interview, discussing Freud's theory of catharsis through laughter, whereby jokes produce a feeling of elation.

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• I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.

  Roxanne McKee

  Nice, Praise, Enough

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at this very posh school, came out sounding like Prince Charles, which you have to do in order to survive, and then I got called Lord Fauntleroy for the first six months at art school.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Art, Taken, School

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• Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

  Paul Gascoigne

  Rangers

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• I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club.

  David Moyes

  Football, Dream, Opportunity

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• When I went to Scotland to do another movie, I would sing with a coach up there and then when I went to New York I sang with a coach over there-I mean I've now sung with coaches in LA, New York, London, Glasgow, St Louis and Rio de Janeiro!

  Gerard Butler

  New York, Mean, Scotland

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• When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.

  Billy Connolly

  School, Air, Aberdeen

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