Quotes About Author

The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation.

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater.

I will be doing a lot of human interest interviews. It involves empathising and listening. Which is a lot of what my day job is about. And, frankly, the priesthood isn't without its element of showbusiness.

All this primal energy people respond to in me and my characters is in my music, 10 times more.

True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

American foreign policy needs to be driven by what will get results and what is legal, not by what satisfies our primal instincts of revenge.

In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.

For Donald, lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was.

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot, and I'm primarily a plot guy.

My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

I am primarily a comedian. Sometimes I also do comedy about my cats. Now unless you find metaphors in cats, there is nothing political about those and I love doing such jokes as much as I love doing political content.

Once cable started coming around, I had a lot of access to a lot of different wrestling, but primarily, the Mid Atlantic stuff is what I sort of fell in love with.

My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

I'm a Republican. I'm running in a Republican primary.

What the establishment was trying to do was to position me as a Republican running in the Democratic primary.