Quotes by Edinburgh Edinburgh is an experience Alan Bold edinburgh tales cities There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always. Alan Bold edinburgh shifting leaving I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home. Alan Rickman edinburgh home way Edinburgh used to be a haughty city. Alexander McCall Smith edinburgh used cities The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry. Charles Darwin edinburgh lectures dull Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story. Danny Boyle edinburgh eight boys This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles. David Nicholls edinburgh cities sound My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960. Davy Jones edinburgh stage-performance firsts It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Douglas Alexander scotland edinburgh church After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine. Frederic Chopin edinburgh men people According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green. Herbert Wind caddies edinburgh golf It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very. Ian Rankin edinburgh welcome There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society. Irvine Welsh edinburgh london literature I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings. Jamie Bell edinburgh church interesting Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh. Jeffery Deaver edinburgh toronto doe The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake. Jennie Bond edinburgh goodbye art It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Mark Twain edinburgh new-orleans thinking For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like. Muriel Spark edinburgh voice missing Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real. Nik Kershaw edinburgh good-things real When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. Norman MacCaig edinburgh euthanasia ridiculous 123»