Edinburgh Quotes - Page 2

Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'.

There's a lot of your family in tonight.

Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

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.

Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

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.

There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.

Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.

I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were at Newcastle and Edinburgh. Looking up to them the whole time, I wanted to go to university and live the life they were living, having a blast, and I didn't get in. I didn't get into any of the universities I wanted to go to.

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.

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.

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.