Pastoral Resources

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.

The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.