The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

. . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

The only pathway to your destruction is your ignorance.

Pursue your dreams with great passion.

Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it.

We were the creatures desired throughout the ages... foolish humans didn't even realize it, living in their own little world.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.

the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.