The midges you get in Scotland are evil.

As much as anything, the anglers will clue you in to the midge hatch. You will see them hunched over in concentration like herons.…

— Ed Engle

I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in…

— Beryl Markham

My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.

— Phyllis McGinley

I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility…

— Clive Anderson

Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge…

— Jack Ohman

The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.

— Coventry Patmore

Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom…

— Anonymous

If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant…

— Lewis Thomas

As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise…

— Desiderius Erasmus

I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

— Arthur Balfour

I visited the archeological site at the northern tip of Newfoundland. There is no question about it. It has been definitely determined that the…

— Russell Freedman

My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every…

— Kevin Kwan

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.

— Nicola Sturgeon