For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
It's okay to be confused. Confusion is the route to all the clarity in the world. — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education, — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too. — Aidan Gillen Copy Share Image
“The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old, but more importantly, trodden upon.” — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always. — Alan Bold Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
I'm sad to say that I've never really kept in touch with my Scottish roots. We never went up there when I… — David Essex Copy Share Image
I do think the idea of just going to Edinburgh and being really honest would be interesting. But I have no interest… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“And Edinburgh. He was proud of Edinburgh too, and of Scotland; and why not? Why should one not be proud of one's… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I love this city, so good to find shops on the same street. Unlike when I was living in Los Angeles you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like… — Patrick Grant Copy Share Image
“It's easy to identify tourists on Edinburgh's Royal mile. They're the ones bound in knitted scarves, wearing puffa jackets and woolly hats… — Gabriella Bennett Copy Share Image
I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or, in the case of Charles Kennedy, both.… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Brentwood stands on that fine and wealthy slope of country, one of the richest in Scotland, which lies between the Pentland Hills… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
“A nudist? In Edinburgh? Does he realise what parallel we’re on?” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image