"Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig."
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"Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!"
"I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered."
"A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world."
"We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period."
"The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance."
"Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?"
"You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water."
"If someone opens a glorious Scotch or a bottle of wine, it's no more than a whimsy, but after nearly 40 years I'm used to it. I don't find it difficult not being drunk when other people are, but I get uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable with where I am."
"What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking."