Jamie Sives Quotes

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

I did find New Zealand similar to Ireland. The people, obviously. I found that, ironically, although these two countries were very far away from each other, their humor was so similar and their outlook on things was quite similar as well.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

I find it a lot with Australian and New Zealand comics, and people from that part of the world, we share quite a similar sense of humour I think.

My parents are from Scotland and my sister and brother were both born in Scotland so my heritage is from there.

I still feel very Scottish.

England and the U.S. definitely have their differences and similarities.

All America is much the same.

Although when you look at people that say, from the same culture, roughly the same age, and not very difference intelligence, and you make a lot of detailed questions about the experiences of say colors, situations, and so on, you'll get very similar answers.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

I've always find that Aussies and Vancouver-ites in general just have a similar kind of attitude.

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.

Far less envy in America than in France.

He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.

I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.

American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

An Englishman, methinks,--not to speak of other European nations,--habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of theEnglish nation; he is a member of the royal regiment of Englishmen, and is proud of his company, as he has reason to be proud of it. But an American--one who has made tolerable use of his opportunities--cares, comparatively, little about such things, and is advantageously nearer to the primitive and the ultimate condition of man in these respects.

I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.