Highlander Quotes

• Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Worst Enemy, Ifs, Truest

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1560, Delacorte Press

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• It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Neil Young

  Death, Running, Believe

  "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

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• I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Clancy Brown

  Lovely, Famous Last Words, Rock Song

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• A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

  Kurt Cobain

  Self, Miserable, Famous Last Words

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• Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders; and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people.

  Queen Victoria

  People, Aberdeen, Hills

  Queen Victoria, Arthur Helps (2010). “Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

  Dana Snyder

  Real, Events, Documentaries

  "Fictional character: Master Shake". TV Series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ("Dumber Dolls", 2002), www.imdb.com. (2000–2015).

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• There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and the other one is Malt Whisky

  R. H. Bruce Lockhart

  Two, Scotch, Likes

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• I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

  Gladys Mitchell

  Liars, Lying, Sacred

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• I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched Robin Hood, Star Wars, Highlander and The Three Musketeers, and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.

  Kieran Bew

  Basketball, Stars, War

  Source: collider.com

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• I did "Highlander", which was just an extraordinary wonderful experience. I'm really proud of "Highlander". And they keep trying to re-make it...good luck to them. I do not want to be involved. But, yeah, I'm really proud of that one.

  Russell Mulcahy

  Good Luck, Trying, Proud

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• He had a come-and-get-me-baby-I'm-pure-trouble-and-you're-gonna-love-it kind of attitude.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Baby, Attitude, Kind

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.211, Delacorte Press

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• You're not falling for me, are you, Irish?" -Adam to Gabrielle

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fall, Adam, Immortal Highlander

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• Under Hitler or Stalin a Góral [Tatra-highlander] could choose to produce oscypek [smoked cheese] however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Cheese, Produce, Officials

  Blog post, March 21, 2009.

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• It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.

  Christopher Lambert

  Mistake, Trying, May

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hero, Finals, Pieces

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.173, Delacorte Press

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• As his other hand began to slip around her waist, his body brushed against hers, and there was no mistaking the thick, hard ridge grazing her jean-clad bottom. Heavens, did that thing never subside? The rest of him might be mortal, but his immortal erection certainly didn't scan to have gotten the memo.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hands, Heaven, Body

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1338, Dell

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• Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?

  Diana Gabaldon

  What If, Stories, Jamie

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• How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Worst Nightmares, Embodiment, Fantasy

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1300, Dell

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• There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Vaccines, Black, Birth

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.121, Delacorte Press

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• That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Law, Body, Uncontrollable

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.136, Delacorte Press

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• Gwen smiled. "Hardly. Bedraggled is being in the full throes of nicotine withdrawal, and after a week on a bus with a group of senior citizens, falling into a cave, and landing on a body." "And then getting tossed back a few centuries, with no idea of what's going on," Chloe agreed. "Naked, too, weren't you?" Gwen nodded wryly. Gabby blinked. "I gave you my plaid," Drustan protested indignantly.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Senior, Fall, Ideas

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.201, Delacorte Press

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• And now she was just Gabby, currently staying in a dreamy, magnificent castle in Scotland with a Fae prince who did all kinds of non-nasty, non-inhuman things like tearing up lists of names, and returning tadpoles to lakes, and saving people's lives. Not to mention kissing with all the otherwordly splendor of a horny angel.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Angel, Kissing, Names

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.217, Delacorte Press

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• The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.

  Tobias Smollett

  Food, Winter, Cooking

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• You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believed in God. I told you of course I do- I've always had a strong sense of self. Your house is quiet now, you're sleeping upstairs and I'm alone with this blasted, idiotic book that purports to tally the sum of my life, and fact is, maybe I do. But maybe, ka-lyrra, your God doesn't believe in me. -- From The (Greatly Revised) Black Edition Of The O'Callaghan Book of the Sin Siriche Du

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, Believe, Book

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1384, Dell

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• While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Males, Might, Vengeance

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1089, Delacorte Press

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