Ian Aberdeen Quotes

My god, he's the one who gets the girls? What? Is he made of chocolate or something? ~ Fisher Amelie

I'd been kissed before, many times, but never like that. ~ Fisher Amelie

I was not staring at you," he told his plate.
I leaned over. "Did you hear that, Dingane's lunch? He was not staring at you."
He looked up at me crossly. "I was not staring at you."
"I never said you were."
"I was merely explaining that Henry was exaggerating. I did not stare at you."
"Okay," I stated, implying in my tone that he had done just that.
"I didn't. I-I wasn't."
"I believe you," I told him
"I may have looked at you a few times to make sure you were doing your job."
"Oh, I see then."
"But I certainly wasn't staring."
"We've established that you were not staring."
He breathed deeply a few times, his eyes burning into mine. "Good."
He'd definitely been staring. ~ Fisher Amelie

Note to self, Ian is happiest when in dangerous situations. ~ Fisher Amelie

No need to flatter me, Miss Price. I believe your bait worked. I'm hooked. Line and sinker. ~ Fisher Amelie

If we don't make out of this alive, Sophie Price, I want you to know that I've never loved anyone as much as I love you. You're it for me. ~ Fisher Amelie

A CITY IS AS much a state of mind as a place - a set of perceptions of place. On the last train home to Mullaghbrack or Gortyfarnham or half a hundred other BallyBogMans, two farmers fall to reviewing their experiences of the big city. One has walked the streets and avenues and come away with memories of glistening steeples and dreaming spires, monuments to men of bearing and import, Palladian porticos and grand civic cupolas, pillars, piers, and palisades, and the air full of singing birds. The other has walked the same streets, yet his memories are of grey brick tenements shouldering against each other like nervous thugs; cracked fanlights, windows boarded over with card, baby carriages full of coal or potatoes, tramps in doorways, cabbage leaves underfoot, the perfume of urine and porter, pressing people with voices like flatirons. They might have visited cities continents apart, but it is the same city. ~ Ian McDonald

Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world. ~ Ian McEwan

The town of North Falls consisted of twenty-eight square miles positioned on a high plateau in the southern region of the Green Mountain range. It had the highest altitude of any village in the state, which meant the snow came early and it came often. It also meant that the first thing anybody noticed about the town was the church steeple. The rotting whitewashed wood and the slatted oval window and the copper spire all connected to the simple wood framing. It was the highest point in the state, and people liked to say that it was closer to God than anywhere else in Vermont. Not that it did the town much good. ~ Ian Pisarcik

[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot. ~ Ian McKellen

The rains would end, and when they did, Ian and I would be together, partners in the truest sense. This was a promise and an obligation I had never had in all my lives. Thinking of it made me feel joyful and anxious and shy and desperately impatient all at the same time - made me feel human. ~ Stephenie Meyer

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well. ~ Janis Ian

I think Ian likes you too much ~ Stephenie Meyer

On Art Garfunkel - He makes Paul Simon look like LL Cool J. ~ Ian Gittins

We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have. ~ Ian Brown

Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen? ~ Ian Frazier

I can't help thinking," she confided when he finished answering her questions about women in India who covered their faces and hair in public, "that it is grossly unfair that I was born a female and so must never know such adventures, or see but a few of those places. Even if I were to journey there, I'd only be allowed to go where everything was as civilized as-as London!"
"There does seem to be a case of extreme disparity between the privileges accorded the sexes," Ian agreed.
"Still, we each have our duty to perform," she informed him with sham solemnity. "And there's said to be great satisfaction in that."
"How do you view your-er-duty?" he countered, responding to her teasing tone with a lazy white smile.
"That's easy. It is a female's duty to be a wife who is an asset to her husband in every way. It is a male's duty to do whatever he wishes, whenever he wishes, so long as he is prepared to defend his country should the occasion demand it in his lifetime-which it very likely won't. Men," she informed him, "gain honor by sacrificing themselves on the field of battle while we sacrifice ourselves on the altar of matrimony."
He laughed aloud then, and Elizabeth smiled back at him, enjoying herself hugely. "Which, when one considers it, only proves that our sacrifice is by far the greater and more noble."
"How is that?" he asked, still chuckling.
"It's perfectly obvious-battles last mere days or weeks, months at the very most. While matrimon ~ Judith McNaught

If you are on the honor roll and your parents don't put a sticker on their car saying so, they are not proud of you and do not love you. ~ Michael Ian Black

Obsession is just a variety of addiction ~ Ian Malcolm ~ Michael Crichton

'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?' ~ Ian Anthony Dale

To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims, this can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs. ~ Ian Buruma

History books are a record of events which bring us to the world in which we live today. ~ Ian Davies

I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year. ~ Ian Rush

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute. ~ Ian Anderson

Elizabeth," he said with reassuring calm, "I gave you my word you'd be safe if you came today."
Elizabeth briefly closed her eyes and nodded, "I know. I also know I shouldn't be here. I really ought to leave. I should, shouldn't I?" Opening her eyes again, she looked beseechingly into his-the seduced asking the seducer for advice.
"Under the circumstances, I don't think I'm the one you ought to ask."
"I'll stay," she said after a moment and saw the tension in his shoulders relax. Unbuttoning her jacket, she gave it to him, along with her bonnet, and he took them over to the fireplace, hanging them on the pegs in the wall. "Stand by the fire," he ordered, walking over to the table and filling two glasses with wine, watching as she obeyed.
The front of her hair that had not been covered by her bonnet was damp, and Elizabeth reached up automatically, pulling out the combs that held it off her face on the sides and giving the mass a hard shake. Unconscious of the seductiveness of her gesture, she raised her hands, combing her fingers through the sides of it and lifting it.
She glanced toward Ian and saw him standing perfectly still beside the table, watching her. Something in his expression made her hastily drop her hands, and the spell was broken, but the effect of that warmly intimate look in his eyes was vibrantly, alarmingly alive, and the full import of the risk she was taking by being here made Elizabeth begin to quake inside. She did not know this ~ Judith McNaught

There are some fantastic parts for older actors. ~ Ian McKellen

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. ~ Ian McEwan

Joel Waldfogel is one of the smartest and funniest economists on the planet. I think of him every time I start to unwrap a present. Buy Scroogenomics for your friends and family. It makes the perfect Christmas gift. ~ Ian Ayres

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert. ~ Ian McEwan

I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way. ~ Ian MacKaye

Rebus reminded himself to stop praying. Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet. ~ Ian Rankin

Reading never wears me out. ~ Ian Falconer

I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein
side by side with ... visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said, "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and nexe year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer

With television, I worked on 'Lost,' where you'd just put your faith in the writers and go with what they're writing. ~ Henry Ian Cusick

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages ... They were told what to do and who to support. ~ Ian Smith

He found and praised Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat. I said I found it too schematic and preferred The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. He nodded, but not in agreement, it seemed, more like a therapist who now understood my problem. ~ Ian McEwan

The longest road to finding yourself is the one that begins at home, and ends at your home. ~ Ian Segal

Atmosphere" is a massive song. A lot of people say it's their favorite Joy Division song, but it's not mine; it reminds me too much of Ian, like it's his death march or something, and it figures that it's one of the most popular songs to play at funerals: Robbie Williams has got "Angels" for weddings and we've got "Atmosphere" for funerals. ~ Peter Hook

Ian...paused for a moment on the threshold and stared, overcome by a sudden sense of confronting, not the men and women who were his friends, but a gathering of souls. How strange we are to one another, he thought. Each soul was encased in flesh, bound by an envelope of skin, turned inward, immersed in silence. The soul was light, or flame--its heat small, ephemeral, easily extinguished. Ian stared and felt afraid: yet felt, in that instant, an uncanny happiness. He saw himself so brotherly, so deeply kindred to them all--these souls, these separate beings, whom he did not know. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew. ~ Ian Frazier

I'm throwing out this bottle rocket."
"No, wait!" Dan said, reaching for it. "It hasn't been set off yet. Don't waste it, Amy. And we don't have company coming - we have Ian Kabra coming. And I know you want to totally impress him and take him to the movies and stare dreamily into his eyes - "
"I do not," Amy said, too quickly.
"Oh, Ian," Dan said, pressing his lightsaber to his chest and batting his eyes. "Tell me again about your shiny, shiny shoes. ~ Clifford Riley

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work. ~ Michael Ian Black

Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline. ~ Ian Peebles

For the first time since his capture, fear came to Bond and crawled up his spine. ~ Ian Fleming

Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid ... you should always be aiming for a top half finish ~ Ian Holloway

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off. ~ Ian Williams

The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design. ~ Ian Shapiro

Get your bloody hands off my wife! ~ Jeaniene Frost

For Christ's sake, Ian, he was stealing your cash! I hope you at least wore a raincoat, you feel me?
Ian blinked. Why would I want a raincoat, Joel? I was having sex.
Joel put his face in his hands, closed his eyes tight, and prayed that when he looked up and opened then Ian would be kidding.
He wasn't ~ Amy Lane

People have always told me I look young for my age ... and I think it's because I've always taken care of myself. ~ Ian Ziering

Self knowledge is a virtue in its own right. We value the way in which people can fulfill their own natures by gaining an unsentimental self understanding. We think it is good to grow, for all our vices, into someone who is mature enough to face the past and the present, someone who understands how character, in its weaknesses as well as its strengths, is made of interlocking tendencies and gifts that have grown in the course of a life. The image of growth and maturing is Aristotelian rather than Kantian. These ancient values are ideals that none fully achieve, and yet they are modest, not seeking to find a meaning in life, but finding excellence in living and honoring life and its potentialities. ~ Ian Hacking

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas. ~ Ian Anderson

In the fifties there were no paedophiles. There were only simple honest-to-goodness child molesters. ~ Ian Pattison

You greedy schmuck!" Denise burst out.
Ian cast a leisurely glance in her direction. "And now my feelings are hurt. That'll cost you the boat, too. ~ Jeaniene Frost

The stars winked down their cryptic morse and he had no key to their cipher. ~ Ian Fleming