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  • Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

  • The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.

  • As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.

    Funny   Humor   Airports  
  • Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

    Song   Novel   Glasgow  
    Alasdair Gray, Joy Hendry (1991). “Chapman”
  • Well the seaport, all seaports in Britain whether it's Glasgow or Newcastle or... or Liverpool, any of the seaports, I've got this kind of knock about, beggar and the Lord will provide feeling about it.

    Feelings   Kind   Lord  
  • I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club.

  • Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

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

  • I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.

    Nice   Praise   Enough  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • To perform at the Cardiff Millennium Centre was amazing in itself - the theatre is an incredible venue and it was great to be performing so close to home. For me the best experience was in Glasgow, where I got to play Dee Dee for two weeks! The audience sang along to every song with such enthusiasm you actually couldn't hear yourself singing! That was incredible!

    Song   Home   Play  
    Source: www.broadwayworld.com
  • When I went to Scotland to do another movie, I would sing with a coach up there and then when I went to New York I sang with a coach over there-I mean I've now sung with coaches in LA, New York, London, Glasgow, St Louis and Rio de Janeiro!

  • The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

    Nuclear   Looks   Comedy  
  • Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

  • I'm not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.

    Hands   Suits   Glasgow  
  • In Scotland, I have to say I'm more fond of Glasgow Rangers - not celtc - and there is a great player who played for them, who is still alive today, Willie Henderson. I met up with him recently when Benfica played celtc again.

  • I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

    "300 Things We Didn't Know About Gerard Butler" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 13, 2009.
  • For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Greggs bakers, though, Ill say that. The opening of the 1977 Star Wars movie was possibly the only time Ive seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.

    Stars   Block   War  
  • Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

    Funny   Humor   Night  
    1965 Television interview, discussing Freud's theory of catharsis through laughter, whereby jokes produce a feeling of elation.
  • If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms; for in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.

  • Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.

  • 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.

    Fun   Rocks   Training  
  • I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.

    Writing   Years   Play  
  • My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow you're born confident. I've always thought that pretty much summed me up. Born confident.

    Dad   School   Class  
    Source: ashadedviewonfashion.com
  • If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

    Jobs   School   Law  
    "Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets". "Morning Edition" with Vicki Barker, www.npr.org. August 11, 2008.
  • London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted."

    Fun   London   Speak  
    Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. January 16, 2014.
  • The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.

    Night   Empires   Trouble  
    In 'The Times' 7 August 1965
  • When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

  • I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

    Shoes   Laughing   Way  
    "Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets". "Morning Edition" with Vicki Barker, www.npr.org. August 11, 2008.
  • When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

    Mps   Land   Two  
  • When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.

    School   Air   Aberdeen  
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