Glasgow Quotes

Glasgow Quote of the day

The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer.

Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

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.

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

It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

The East End of Glasgow is like the Olympics. Lots of foriegners in tracksuits struggling to speak English.

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.

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

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.

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

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.

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.

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

Welcome to Glasgow - the city where we punch people who are on fire.

London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted."

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

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.

If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

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

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.

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

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

When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.

The Rosebank dancing school gives the high-quality training and enjoyable atmosphere for dance lessons in Glasgow.

We sat still, our breathing loud and rhythmic, its music melancholy, a traditional song of sorrow.

Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is ‘apparition’.