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Is John Motson still wearing his shepherdskin coat?
couldn't be more Scottish if it was painted blue and smelled of burning peat and your ginger sister.
One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.
Clare. Give me a reason to stay.
Puck Connolly," says the old man. "Don't be looking at him like that." Such a statement is too tantalizing to ignore. "Who is he?" "Lord, that's Sean Kendrick,
There's only two types of men left in this world. Lumberjacks and Liam Nesson.
Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
He was from Glasgow. Everything past "good morning" was a blur.
On the Jellicoe road
On the most Scottish thing he'd ever seen: I was going through a town called Bathgate at around 11 o'clock at night. And there was a guy leaning and pissing against a front door. He then took out his keys and went inside.
Quite definitely a Bingley
Come with me, sweet lass, and I'll make good on me promise to chase ye through the woods like a highlander." Broen spoke in a rich timbre laced with good humor. " Ye there ... Lads, be sporting now and let me ravish this charming creature the way only a Scotsman can!
I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played against Nick quite a lot and he is a good player - one of the trickiest centres I've played against.
Mollie Hunter was both a great friend and a very fine writer for children. She was fascinated by Scotland's history and its folklore - almost all her novels reflect her tremendous knowledge of both.
There's something weird about the Scots. We are a troubled, slightly tortured race - the sense of the respectable outward character and, inside, the turmoil of something darker.
Liam, shut up. I'm trying to do an interview
face, conclusively prove that the enormous progress made in the Highlands during the last half century, and now rapidly going on, is mainly due to our Highland Sports. A great amount of nonsense has been said and written on this question, and an attempt made to hold grouse and deer
Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train!
NEIL GAIMAN near Kinsale, County Cork 15 January 2001
This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, I presume, from the Sottish settlers, but resembling no known Scottish accent. It's simply Kiwi English with added r's.
Magician of Lublin,
Kellan Walsh... who the hell are you?
Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again.
She is beautiful, isn't she? (Lochlan)
Like the first day of spring after a long, harsh winter. (Sin)
The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.
Obtruded on us by the Scottish historians. [* Chron. Sax. p. 19.] [** W. Malms, p. 19.]
It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.
Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more proud than to promote this wonderful land with all its richness and diversity wherever I go.
You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
So all we know about Hugh MacLean is that his financial situation is unclear, he has an unknown number of illegitimate children, and the family curse is true. I've caught quiet a prize!
Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.
Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?
[on John Cowper Powys] ... there is an indistinct photograph of the great man himself, gazing into the misty cleft of a mountain range, wearing what could be an old rug, or an old cardigan. He looks like a cross between an aged werewolf and a puzzled child.
There's people that when they see Samuel Hamilton the first time might get the idea he's full of bull. He don't talk like other people. He's an Irishman. And he's all full of plans - a hundred plans a day. And he's all full of hope.
I'm as Scottish as they come.
What is it ye have there, Murtagh?
The man who walks with Henslow.
Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.
Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.
Robert Smith is a whingebag.
Gilderoy Lockhart
You look like Curran. You have that pissy exasperated look on your face.
I didn't know Ian Smith myself!
Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.
Before there was anything, there was Lochan.
Our Welsh teacher thinks he is young. He tells us that the Welsh for skiving in town is 'mitchio yn y dre'.
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.
Sometimes being a Highland Laird was a royal pain in the arse.
Callum has turned down the
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour.
As equally as one may use size, the cunning James Crosbie was once classified as the most dangerous man in Scotland, notorious for his daring bank robberies and escaping on a bicycle. He was the criminal mastermind behind many successful crimes carried out throughout the UK.
side with his head up in the air and his eyes full of laughter walked as strongly and steadily as any boy in Yorkshire - Master Colin.
I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking along the street and deduce that he is a retired manufacturer of poppet valves named Robinson with rheumatism in one arm, living at Clapham.
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
Wouldn't. Think. About. Ian.Ian-- Jude Watson
Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.
For Arthur Munroe was dead. And on what remained of his chewed and gouged head there was no longer a face.
My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
Gilly Gilleshpee
He was the man who rode into our valley out of the heart of the great glowing west and when his work was done, he left whence he had come--and he was Shane.
Bindy Mackenzie talks like a horse.
Scotland is the Canada of England!
The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
Ronan Lynch, keeper of secrets, fighter of men, devil of a boy,
It was some time ago - in the twelfth century, as you humani measure time - a man from the land of the Scots. I do not remember his name." Both Sophie and Josh instinctively knew that Hekate was lying. "What happened to him?" Sophie asked. "He died." There was a peculiar high-pitched giggle.
A word, Sir Jamie. Quickly!"
You may speak freely, Alwyn," Jamie sighed. "You are always making too mcuh of minor incidents."
You're no' going to believe it, Sir Jamie," Alwyn gasped. "But I swear every male Fergusson alive is outside our gate.
What is his name?-- Jane Austen
He's British. He's addicted to waving his long stick around. He has a superb sweater collection.
Oh dear. I have just seen Angus hunkering down in the long grass. He's stalking their poodle. I'll have to intervene to avert a massacre. Oh, it's OK, Mrs. Next Door has thrown a brick at him.
On 18th September 2014, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, absolute sovereign power will lie in the hands of the Scottish people. They have to decide whether to keep it, or give it away to where their minority status makes them permanently powerless and vulnerable.
Billy Rankin is a true Glasgow rock legend. He has everything going for him: he's a brilliant guitarist, he writes killer songs, he's worked with the best, toured the world and he is one handsome-looking chap. I know all of this because Billy told me.
The word was out that Royal Barnes was huntin' Kilkenny," somebody commented. "He was kin to the Webers, you know. Half-brother, I think.
Ginger is now called Jack, and utterly adored in a home of his very own. Blending
CRAIG DAVIDSON Medium Tough
I would've loved to return to me home of Ireland, but Joshua never made the bloody pikes he was flogged for.
Is it...Richard Frederic?"
"No, and I am not going to--"
"Russell Francis?"
"No. You're being--"
"Rumpelstiltskin Finnegan?"
Jackaby sighed. "Yes, Miss Rook. Rumpelstiltskin. You've found me out. I am the devious imp of the fairy tales.
I'm Barrow. Shade Barrow. And you better not get me killed.
There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.
You're about to meet the business end of my shotgun, comin' on McKay land and insulting me and mine.
MOOSEN!!!!!!! There many MOOSEN in the WOODSEN! MANY MUCH MOOSEN! The Meisin wanted and the MOOSEN and ...
What's his name?
[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]
Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.
There is no greater enemy of virtue than a charming Welshman.
Malavika Vishwanath. Don't try to say it you'll just piss me off.
William, my sweet William! I want him.
approaching Kyle. The Tangs
Richard Dawson must
Tony McManus is the best Celtic guitarist in the world.
I'm looking forward to locking swords with Douglas Henshall and working against the stunning backdrop of Shetland. I came to Scotland a lot in the 70s and 80s in various theatre productions and of course to film Hallam Foe but this is the furthest I've ever been.
The elder Miss Larkin
Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering.
There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges,
His head tilted to the side and humor twinkled in his dark eyes. "Turn yer back."
'Are you shy? What's wrong, big guy? Afraid to show me your Scottish bagpipe? Are ye built like a moose and hung like a mouse?
A big, robust guy with blond hair and a relatively insolent grin, Shane was supersmart. I never had to tell him anything. He knew what to do at all times.
O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,
Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?
I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
Jacob, inspector of shadows, miraculous interpreter of squirmy gut feelings, seer and slayer of real and actual monsters -
As Vishous seemed to find a partner in surly crime with Rhamp, Qhuinn found himself staring at the brother. For a lot of reasons. One,