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  • I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this white, sudden white shape, that just zapped from me and went straight to the light that was at the back of the room, and I just stopped cold and said to the audience, "Did you guys see that?" No one saw it.

    Guy  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.

  • So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him to do a very bad Sherlock Holmes impersonation throughout a good portion of a train ride to Edinburgh, Scotland. And Wayne seemed so wrong she hadn't even tried. Hale was Hale. And not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are some things that can be given but never stolen. Of course, that didn't stop her from trying.

  • I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

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

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

    Guy   Edinburgh  
  • I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture.

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

  • I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

    Speech in London, 6 Dec. 1988, comparing participation in blood sports to selling slaughtered meat, in The Times 7 Dec. 1988
  • After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

    Men   Edinburgh  
    Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.375, Courier Corporation
  • You look like you're ready for bed!

    "Prince Philip's Best and Worst Public Gaffes Ahead of His Final Royal Engagement". Said in 2003 to President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, www.mirror.co.uk. August 02, 2017.
  • Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

  • You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?

    "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2009.
  • The bastards murdered half my family.

    "Prince Philip, the grandfather of political incorrectness" by John Moody, www.foxnews.com.
  • A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want.

    Years  
  • A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.

  • Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.

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

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

  • Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in a madhouse after eating too much LSD, and accompanying Seattle actor and musician Michael McQuilken (of Collaborator Productions) to the hospital after a Frisbee accident. He reached up to catch it and cut his hand on a sign, .. He had to get a few stitches, but I think he can still play.

  • If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.

    Remark to Edinburgh University students in Peking, 16 Oct. 1986, in 'The Times' 17 Oct. 1986
  • When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.

    YouTube Channel "The University of Edinburgh"/"Dr Shah Rukh Khan - Life Lessons", www.youtube.com. October 16, 2015.
  • If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

  • I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

  • If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

    School   Dukes  
  • When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

  • I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

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

    Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11717, Delphi Classics
  • Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don't be bound by rules, don't hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else's dream.

    "20 Wonderful Quotes From SRK's Speech At Edinburgh University That Will Teach You A Thing Or Two About Life" by Ankush Bahuguna, www.mensxp.com. October 16, 2015.
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