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People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the same time we're saying, well yes of course Scotland has got to be independent. And why don't we make Wales independent too? And the north of England.

David Attenborough

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Samuel Johnson

Our message to the Scottish Diaspora this New Year should be to come home to Scotland.

Kenny Macaskill

Most came from Texas, but about 150 cyclists from across the world also signed up. They come to us from everywhere - from Trinidad and Australia to England, Scotland and all points in between.

James Black

As of this morning, Scotland has won 11 gold, seven silver and 11 bronze medals, putting us sixth in the medals table.

Paul Bush

Beautiful, glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country!

Mary Todd Lincoln

It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.

Hugh Macdiarmid

The number of growing companies and the companies with real desire to grow within Scotland is quite a small percentage of the overall marketplace. Our priority is to focus on these companies that want to grow.

Terry Currie

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and winter.

Billy Connolly

Our first democratic Parliament in history - we are going to take that opportunity to move Scotland forward.

Alex Salmond

I always like coming to Canada. It feels like Canada is the Scotland of North America. And that's a good thing.

Nick Mccarthy

On the whole I think Nationalism has been a very positive force in Scotland over the last two or three decades.

Douglas Dunn

Before the game against Scotland, there are four other games that are just as important for us.

Pierre Berbizier

I've sold to Japan, China, England, Italy, I think, Switzerland, Scotland.

Judy Williams

We were following Scotland rather than playing our own game and imposing our style on them and mastering them. We have to have a good analysis of the game before we play Ireland and work out why it went wrong.

Frederic Michalak

The fact that the meetings are in Birmingham is unfortunate but I know how important it is for Scottish Athletics to be represented at that level. I'm very confident that things are now going in the right direction in Scotland. There are exciting times ahead.

Liz Mccolgan

The players know there is pressure on us to beat Scotland. We have to show the form which got us results last year and forget Twickenham.

Gethin Jenkins

We've seen a significant change in Scotland in that there are lots of people wanting to buy into the top end of the market, but there's not a lot of supply.

John Coleman

I love being in Scotland. I'm looking forward to getting back and having a pint. . . .

Billy Boyd

It's bitterly disappointing but I've been told there's no chance of me making the Scotland games. I was really looking forward to them after our great results against Italy and Norway.

Jackie Mcnamara

I don't think Germany will be in the playoff round. I think Canada, Sweden, U.S. and Norway will. And, Scotland may be able to make it.

Anette Norberg

Nothing is for ever, and you can't guarantee anything, but we're Scottish headquartered, we started here, we live here and we want to keep as much as we can in Scotland.

Sam Russell

I get a lot of letters and fan mail from Scotland.

Aamir Khan

This week the Executive had the opportunity to clamp down on this appalling situation but once again it failed to seize the opportunity. It is the citizens of Scotland that will suffer.

Kenny Macaskill

There is nothing better for me than to bring the bells in, in Scotland.

Sharleen Spiteri

It's a good offer, but it's probably as far as Bank of Scotland can go. RBS will probably step in as a kind of white knight.

Andrew Hobson

I've seen all of the movies. I'm an old-school Bond fan. Sean Connery is our band's favorite Bond. Shirley feels a kinship with him because they're both from Scotland.

Butch Vig

It is in the interest of not only farmers, but also consumers and retailers, to ensure that dairy farming in Scotland remains sustainable so that we have a continued supply of quality, fresh Scottish milk.

John Kinnaird

In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

Billy Connelly

For these two individuals, one of whom knows how to make Governments change but the other knows how to best use his resources for good causes to come together in this way is I hope going to be very special for the both the countries that they will help but it is also very special for Scotland to be recognised in that way on the international stage.

Jack Mcconnell

I'm asking the people of Scotland to shout with me, do they think that this is acceptable?

Kathleen Marshall

We expect our game against Scotland to be open and they will come out playing attacking hockey.

Jenny King

He has a week of games up in Scotland and we go every year.

Anna Friel

Nations are nations if they feel themselves to be a nation. And Scotland overwhelmingly feels itself to be a nation.

Alex Salmond

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

James Hogg

He's a fantastic player who's done very well in Scotland and he's an absolute handful.

Rio Ferdinand

I have a room in my house in Scotland, a music room, and when I walk into it the creativity comes for writing. There is an energy in the room you can feel it.

Mike Scott

Everyone considers Scotland as underdogs and that is a fantastic title to have. We will look after our game, prepare very well and if the players do the jobs asked of them then I think we will put up some strong opposition.

Peter Drinnen

The majority of our players are playing in England and Scotland, and it's difficult to just come together for a match. At the same time we have a period for our preparations before the tournament (World Cup) and we will make the best use of that time.

Leo Beenhakker

My first Solheim was when we lost at Dalmahoy (in Scotland) in 1992.

Meg Mallon

We would recommend that this is a route that Scotland should consider.

Alice Brown

The next Scotland coach needs to be someone with great ability and can get the best out of limited resources. It is going to have to be someone who can really take players and make them punch way above their weight in rugby terms.

Brian Kennedy

We didn't play (well) last week against Scotland but we won.

Dimitri Yachvili

We're delighted to have finally secured Liddell's services. He was capped by Scotland last season and is a top quality player.

Dean Thomas

We were there in May and traveled by bus and train in England, Scotland and Ireland. We thought it was something that needed to be encouraged in Skagit County.

Gerry Douglas

I thought Matt Williams was a really good coach but the problem was he surrounded himself with people who were not good for the way Scotland had to be playing given our size. We needed to be fitter and faster and move the ball more which wasn't what was happening.

Matt Williams

It's been quite a phenomenon, really. Curling was on quite late in the evening. It was about midnight or after that, in fact, by the time the game finished. We got an audience of 6.3 million that stayed up to watch the curling final. Now there are only five million people in Scotland, so clearly they weren't all Scots.

Robert Kelly

Alan will work hand in hand with the new chief executive and they, with assistance from the other directors, will drive the game on in Scotland.

Andy Irvine

Economic growth is the key to living standards and improving quality of life and I feel that to neglect economic growth is to create more inequalities between Scotland and elsewhere.

Jim Mather

I believe we are getting closer to Scotland, Wales and Ireland. But England and France are still some way off.

Marco Bortolami

I have some great digital pictures I could sell on the Internet [of Lucy] doing splits and handstands and running around and stuff. My parents came to the set, I brought them over from Scotland, and they loved her. They said, 'This girl has so much energy, where the hell does that come from?' It just comes from her. She's incredibly infectious.

Paul Mcguigan

Maurice had a 6ft 6in minder behind him so I don't know if Kenny will get one, too. I don't think it will be as bad, but the whole thing is nonsense. He is the Scotland No.9 and he will do well.

Terry Butcher

I get the same results with the exercise in Berlin or in the Netherlands that I do in the U.S. or Australia or Curacao. And what's even more distressing is the fact that I've gotten the same results using the exercise with adults in Scotland and Australia in the year 2002 that I got using the exercise with children in Riceville, Iowa, in 1968.

Jane Elliot

The market is strengthening in Scotland, but there still seem to be good deals available.

Peter Gray

Although opera in Scotland has its unique problems, it also presents unique possibilities. If you can come up with solutions, good and well.

Timothy Dean

We can take a lot of positives from just being here in Scotland.

Justin Langer

The Last King of Scotland.

Forest Whitaker

I'm very excited, especially traveling with the president, who is a historian on Scotland.

Thomas Keith

Scott has obviously got a knee injury but we won't know the extent of the damage until he is assessed by a specialist back in Scotland. He's hobbling about just now on crutches but he does not seem to be in any great pain.

Andy Mitchell

The branding campaign Glasgow: Scotland With Style was launched 18 months ago and tonight we have been given plenty of food for thought for taking it forward.

Alex Mosson

Scotland have improved in two areas. I don't know if it's down to their new trainer but their ball carrying has come on immensely and they can get the ball wide. To control the game defensively you have to get the upper hand in those areas and they really hurt us today.

Fabien Pelous

I'm delighted to be involved with Discovery. For anyone growing up in Scotland who ever thought about a future in the massively exciting world of film, this is the place to discover the opportunities that are out there to help you achieve it.

Billy Boyd

[SCOTLAND have] high hopes ... Hopes are high that Barry Ferguson will overcome the injury he sustained.

Barry Ferguson

I work for Lloyds TSB Scotland [Scottish cricket's main sponsors] and they have been very understanding.

Paul Hoffmann

This is important news for Scotland as it means those women diagnosed with higher risk breast cancer will be able to have a better chance with this drug.

David Cameron

It's true that you feel so much better once you get out on the field. I need to recover 100 per cent to be ready for Scotland.

Frederic Michalak

At halftime, coach said that we could still win. In the second half, we were playing Scotland basketball and looking for the good, better and best shots. We were getting easy looks, too.

Aswad Hopewell

It is a big problem in Scotland.

Vladimir Romanov

Most of central and eastern England and eastern Scotland are below freezing. Even in central London the highest temperature was 0.4C (32F). The only saving grace has been the lack of wind. But that will change (on Friday) when it will feel pretty raw.

Paul Knightley

It's easy for me to be a Scotsman because of the overwhelming feeling of most people in Scotland of being subservient to England and therefore having a chip on our shoulder.

Bill Forsyth

[Ali Ansari, an Iran expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland, said the president would have to make concessions.] I do not think it is fatal, ... but he is going to have to take some drastic action to realize that politics is the art of compromise.

Ali Ansari

We know that is part of it, but we had some close games. Camp Hill almost beat us and the other night against Scotland, we had poor shooting. We were lucky to get out of there with a win.

Ray Staver

It is s a massive amount of people, half the population of Scotland. Can you imagine a tragedy on that scale in the western world. Something like that, just wouldn't happen. We have to dig deep.

Dougray Scott

What came from Manchester; Stevie Winwood and Spencer Davis were the Birmingham contingent and then from the North we had The Animals, Eric Burdon -- and further up north was the Alex Harvey Band from Scotland. We all converged on London, we all had our own different styles, and it just became the London melting pot, really.

John Mayall

He won't be fit for Dublin, there's no doubt about that, but he might be fit for Scotland and Italy.

Rep. Rob Andrews

I definitely encourage teachers to send letters home. We also put a form in the Scotland Journal, explaining what the test covers and encouraging a good night's rest for the students.

Diana Mach

I have always been a big fan of Kris. Signing him is a major piece of Rangers jigsaw completed now. He always seems to score against us when he was at Kilmarnock. I have no doubts he is going to be one of the top players in this country. He is going to keep improving with the good players around him at Rangers and will get into the Scotland squad. The world's his oyster.

Terry Butcher

The climate, the people and the cost of land were all factors. Our land and house here cost the same as a one-bedroom apartment in Scotland.

Sonja Hunt

Us and Scotland is a huge rivalry. Earlier in the season they just killed us. It's a good way to end with the consolation championship. The consolation championship is the same record as second place in this tournament.

James Tjeerdsma

I appeal to my colleagues in England, Scotland and Wales to give serious thought to this matter.

Jim Boyce