Edinburgh Quotes
51 Edinburgh quotes by 47 unique authors
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Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in…
— Reggie Watts
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I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city…
— Marcus Brigstocke
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I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was…
— Tom Hiddleston
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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
— Alan Rickman
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.
— Muriel Spark
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It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.
— Ian Rankin
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So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd…
— Ally Carter
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As with the bud, so with the blossom. A boy is the only thing known from which a man can be made. I hope that…
— Paul H. Dunn
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In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my…
— Paul Merton
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At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in…
— Peter Capaldi
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Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums,…
— Sara Sheridan
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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 guilt to which…
— Sara Sheridan
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I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in…
— Neil Cross
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I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.
— Peter Hambleton
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
— Sam Heughan
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My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my…
— Robert Edwards
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In Edinburgh, there was a lovely little Episcopalian Church of Scotland church on my way to the theater, so I used to pop in there…
— Neve McIntosh
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I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen…
— Neve McIntosh
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At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie…
— Jamie Muir
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
— Magnus Magnusson
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When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in…
— Jeffrey Archer
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This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and…
— David Nicholls
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Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
— Carol Ann Duffy
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The knighthood I received was a fantastic honor but its not something Ive ever used and I dont think I ever will. Its incredible to…
— Sean Connery
Who Wrote These Edinburgh Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 51 Edinburgh Quotes, led by these top contributors: