“Norwegians were not exactly what you might call a cultured people - Nikolai Loeb” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“Watching her was like being caught up in the radiance of a star, and in the light, he was revealed.” — Paula Quinn Copy Share Image
I came from a really small village outside Edinburgh in Scotland and had quite a sheltered upbringing. — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It remains an ambiton of mine to get to a major finals with Scotland. — Steve Clarke Copy Share Image
There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place. — Carwyn Jones Copy Share Image
If you're in America or Europe, walk for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was immense. — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It took me some time to get used to the game in Scotland because it was very different. The game is quicker… — Teemu Pukki Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in history and when I looked into the settlers who came to my home state, North Carolina, I found… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
If you are a Scot living outside of Scotland but still in the UK, you are not allowed to vote in the… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
As a young Scottish footballer growing up - I always used to follow Scotland and watch the games - Kenny Dalglish, Graeme… — David Moyes Copy Share Image
I looked at it, and it was like, 'Can I push and make the Olympic squad?' It is tough going from 18… — Karen Carney Copy Share Image
Scotland is a much lighter and more fun place than I thought it was. I was miserable when I was there. But… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Scotland was not imune to these developments, but since their role in France, Germany, Itay and Poland was to provide the ideological… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image
I love the traditional music of all our islands - Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales , but I suppose I'm viewed pretty… — Ralph McTell Copy Share Image
“But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that's… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
“He was waiting there for her beside the pool - a great black horse with shoulders like polished ebony and the water… — Mollie Hunter Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life,… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments. — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers. — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
Singing Flower of Scotland was the only thing that made me nervous.I don't get nervous doing my own shows. — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
There's just no place like Scotland when the sun is out. I just love coming home. — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
Most of my friends in London are musicians, but the ones in Scotland have proper jobs. — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
Britain, with MI5, MI6, Scotland Yard and other police forces is one of the best in the world at what we do… — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye. — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
“Food shouldn’t be that shade of green, lass.” – Faolán MacIntyre” — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that. — Davy Jones Copy Share Image
Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union. — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world. — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I won't be chasing down players who have retired. I only want players who are 100% committed to Scotland. — Steve Clarke Copy Share Image
We have a rich cultural tapestry in Scotland, it's not that there's a lack of stories. — Douglas Henshall Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly passionate about Scotland not becoming an independent country. — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
My parents are from Scotland and my sister and brother were both born in Scotland so my heritage is from there. — Sam Allardyce Copy Share Image
