Tartan Quotes

• Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Art, Beats, Plaid

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). "Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems", p.171

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• I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.

  Christian Louboutin

  Thinking, Vivid, Weaving

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• Scottish-Americans tell you that if you want to identify tartans, it's easy - you simply look under the kilt, and if it's a quarter-pounder, you know it's a McDonald's.

  Billy Connolly

  Mcdonalds, Looks, Kilts

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• The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing 'tartan troosers'.

  Ian Poulter

  Golf, Want, Lasts

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• I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Home, Blood, Names

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• I bring myself innately to it, yeah. I bring those details as much as I - what I don't obsess over is, there are certain ways I might've pushed it even a little more. For example, [to Warren] your accent. I know Warner Bros. at one point came in. I don't know, until you came to set, I know I wore that long tartan skirt and the ruffled blouse for that.

  Vera Farmiga

  Long, Littles, Might

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in order to be close to something important, and how they would feel differently for the rest of time, having been briefly in its presence. That was how these creatures looked now, these beautiful pilgrims of rarefied light, standing around the girl with the dirty-face and the tartan skirt and the boy with the wounded hand who was frowning in his sleep.

  Philip Pullman

  Beautiful, Girl, Distance

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• It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie that matched. And I demanded that outfit, I thought it was so punk - her long skirt, she looked like a Scottish queen, so regal.

  Vera Farmiga

  Queens, Ties, Long

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview by Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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