« All Stop Them Quotes
·
Alasdair Gray's Page
Stop Them Quotes by Alasdair Gray
1 Stop Them quote by Alasdair Gray
More Quotes by Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.
-
Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but…
-
Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
-
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word…
-
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
-
But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem…
-
Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
-
Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits,…
-
No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing…
-
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them…
-
I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk…
-
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.
See all 17 quotes by Alasdair Gray »
More Stop Them Quotes
Popular Stop Them quotes from across the collection:
-
I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I…
— Alan Alda
-
I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to…
— Maya Angelou
-
Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a…
— Chief Joseph
-
The real key to Jack's [Nicklaus] success was his fantastic ability to score. His drives sometimes went into the rough, but he…
— Gardner Dickinson
-
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can…
— George W. Bush
-
Rich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.
— T. Harv Eker
-
It's imperative to realize that it is not necessary to try to get rid of fear in order to succeed. Rich and…
— T. Harv Eker
-
From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to…
— Gabriel Byrne
-
Nobody has been able to stop them [homosexuals] so far, I'm hoping Uganda can.
— Scott Lively
-
My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they…
— Edwina Currie
-
They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
— Joseph Heller
-
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them…
— Carl Rogers
See all Stop Them Quotes »
Browse Alasdair Gray Quotes by Category