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My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
Robert Burns
2.
Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
Alexander Smith
3.
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.
Shirley Henderson
4.
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.
Menzies Campbell
5.
[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.
James McAvoy
7.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
Charles Lamb
8.
I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
Carter Burwell
11.
I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the Scottish think about being Scottish and the Welsh think about being Welsh, but the English don't really care. But the French think about it all the time, it's an absolute preoccupation.
Jonathan Meades
12.
Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.
Edgar Meyer
13.
When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people
Eddie Izzard
14.
I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really got into this music. After that, I started to compose bagpipe music in my notations. Then I started building bagpipes by myself, and then I started to perform with the instrument myself in the 1980s.
Yoshi Wada
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Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.
Moby
16.
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
Evelyn Glennie
17.
Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.
Mel Gibson
18.
I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!
Robert Carlyle
21.
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
Callum Keith Rennie
22.
The settled will of the Scottish people.
John Smith
23.
The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby
reconvened.
Winnie Ewing
24.
Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.
Prince Philip
25.
I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.
David Duchovny
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[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.
Robert Burns
27.
Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.
Ed Sheeran
28.
I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
Alan Cumming
29.
I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.
Kenneth Cranham
30.
There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.
Nell Hudson
31.
I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
Michael Scott
32.
Most traditional Scottish food is designed to use things that are just about to go...off.
Scott Hutchison
33.
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
Billy Boyd
36.
Aye, wumman, if it's truly romantic, then it must be Scottish.
P. C. Cast
37.
I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
Billy Connolly
38.
I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.
Karen Gillan
39.
Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.
Joey McIntyre
40.
I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.
Jeanette MacDonald
41.
I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
Arthur Balfour
42.
The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.
Ken Stott
43.
As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
Billy Connolly
44.
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
Ian Rankin
45.
I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.
Charlie Adam
46.
Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.
John Hamill
47.
Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.
Ashley Jensen
48.
Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.
Alasdair MacLean
49.
I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!
Gail Carriger