1.
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.
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
14.
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
Evelyn Glennie
15.
Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.
Mel Gibson
16.
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
19.
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
20.
When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people
Eddie Izzard
21.
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
22.
Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.
Prince Philip
23.
The settled will of the Scottish people.
John Smith
24.
The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby
reconvened.
Winnie Ewing
25.
[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
26.
Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.
Ed Sheeran
27.
I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.
David Duchovny
29.
Aye, wumman, if it's truly romantic, then it must be Scottish.
P. C. Cast
30.
I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
Billy Connolly
31.
I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.
Karen Gillan
32.
Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.
Joey McIntyre
33.
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
34.
I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
Arthur Balfour
35.
The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.
Ken Stott
36.
As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
Billy Connolly
37.
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
Ian Rankin
38.
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
39.
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
40.
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
41.
Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs.
Alasdair MacLean
42.
I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!
Gail Carriger
44.
Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.
Alan Chadwick
45.
What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
John Major
46.
I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.
Nina Conti
48.
I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
Alan Cumming
49.
I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.
Kenneth Cranham
50.
I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
Michael Scott