Me and Greg Davies once shared a whole jar of pesto, neat, during the Edinburgh festival years ago because we had no… — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
We are spoilt for beauty in Edinburgh, it's so close to the sea and the mountains. — Lady Amelia Windsor Copy Share Image
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by… — Robert Edwards Copy Share Image
I'm hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and… — Joan Lingard Copy Share Image
“An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“There were legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties, women from the age of thirty and upward, who crowded into their war-bereaved… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
As with the bud, so with the blossom. A boy is the only thing known from which a man can be made.… — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Edinburgh is a world city, visited throughout the year for its beauty and history, but in August, it is the City of… — Dominic Holland Copy Share Image
Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
I'm terribly taken by the countryside, so I love things like shadows cast by deep woods. I love the autumn. I love… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
“Into no other city does the sight of the country enter so far; if you do not meet a butterfly, you shall… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The drinking dens are spilling out There's staggering in the square There's lads and lasses falling about And a crackling in the… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind at all. The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs - yes, full-blown affairs, and more… — Sarah Bradford Copy Share Image
The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake. — Jennie Bond Copy Share Image
My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English. — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I'd done an Edinburgh show before, in 1981, called 'The Importance of Being Varnished' - I was in the pun trade at… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
Edinburgh is where I started. A lot of the remixes I made were done in my room there, and it was a… — Kygo Copy Share Image
I've been to Venice, Rome, and Dubrovnik, but none of them come close to Edinburgh. — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
“If I had to pick two words to describe Edinburgh, I would tell you that it's majestic and beautiful. Really, really old,… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
People go up to Edinburgh thinking it will make them a star, and generally, in the first few weeks back they have… — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat,… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I was a chorister at St Mary's Music School, from the ages of 11 to 13, after prep school and before I… — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
