Johann Lamont Quotes
Scotland has chosen to remain in partnership with our neighbours in the U.K. But Scotland is distinct, and colleagues must recognise that.
Quotes to Explore
-
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
-
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
-
When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
-
I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
-
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
-
I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
-
On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.
-
I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
-
Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
-
I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
-
Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
-
I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
-
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
-
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
-
People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
-
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
-
I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
-
In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.
-
I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.
-
I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.
-
Seeing someone that you can relate to in the media is everything as a child, and a lot of people are not granted that luxury.
-
Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
-
Scotland has chosen to remain in partnership with our neighbours in the U.K. But Scotland is distinct, and colleagues must recognise that.
