Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real. — Nik Kershaw Copy Share Image
If you're not keen on crowds, it might be best to give Edinburgh a miss during festival time when it can get… — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer. — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to do comedy, but didn't know where to start - all I knew was that Edinburgh was where… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow. — Magnus Magnusson 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 am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth.… — Rory Bremner 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
“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
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 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
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward… — Herbert Wind 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
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
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
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
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
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
My upbringing has always been quite equal in terms of cultural influences. But it's unlikely that anything could prepare you for a… — Antonia Thomas Copy Share Image
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I've spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a… — Grace Chatto 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
I feel at home in Scotland and go back whenever I can. I've played the Edinburgh Festival twice, and I get the… — Kenneth Cranham 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
In Edinburgh, there was a lovely little Episcopalian Church of Scotland church on my way to the theater, so I used to… — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate enough to travel to Edinburgh a few times over the last few years, and I just loved the city.… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with me, Dan. Whats wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on… — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate… — J. K. Rowling 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
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I love coming to Edinburgh and last time I was here, Claire and I found out we were expecting our daughter Eleanor,… — Les Dennis Copy Share Image
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