Scottish Quotes - Page 8

• I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

  Chris Lilley

  Character, Play, One Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

  Callum Keith Rennie

  Moving, Parent, Canada

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• I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

  Callum Keith Rennie

  Always Trying, Auditions, Chance

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• I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

  Dolly Parton

  Blood, Scotland, Littles

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• We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.

  Greg Proops

  Blue, Guy, Faces

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• The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.

  Jilly Cooper

  Upper Class, Feet, Good Man

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• My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.

  Katharine Isabelle

  Dad, Scotland, Roots

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• I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But thats part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.

  Rory Bremner

  Love Is, Europe, Heritage

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• I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.

  Ashley Jensen

  Thinking, Self, Twenties

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• Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858, the day after Jock was buried (with almost nobody present to mourn him except his shaggy dog) in the churchyard at Greyfriars Abbey in Edinburgh, Bobby was found sleeping on his master's grave, where he continued to sleep every night for fourteen years.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Friendship, Dog, Sleep

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books

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• Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose, with courage. We will start with the aim and object that there will be 134 men and women, pledged to 134 Scottish constituencies, to spend their whole brain power, their whole courage and their whole soul in making Scotland into a country in which we can take people from all the nations of the earth and say: this is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it?

  James Maxton

  Country, Children, Men

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• I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional representation. And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.

  Terry Pratchett

  Littles, Kingdoms, Tiny

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• Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally. The word "grammar," like its sister word "glamour," is actually derived from an old Scottish word that meant "sorcery." When we were made to diagram sentences in high school, we were unwittingly being instructed in syntax sorcery, in wizardry. We were all enrolled at Hogwarts. Who knew?

  Tom Robbins

  School, Magic, Sorcery

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. 2012.

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