Ian Simpson Quotes

A burst of Beethoven that would have made the composer glad he was deaf erupted from her i-Phone. ~ Ian Simpson

Now, I don't give a barmaid's tits about the truth. ~ Ian Simpson

Now, are you just a bloody noisy tosspot, or are you going to help me? ~ Ian Simpson

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay. ~ Ian Frazier

Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them. ~ Ian Frazier

They go on like that and I can't understand, really I can't, what it's all about, and yet I feel terrible. ~ Ian Cross

A guy called Arthur Brown ... was a big influence of mine ... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull. ~ Bruce Dickinson

... the unimaginable age of the mountains and the fine mesh of living things that lay across them would remind him that he was part of this order and insignificant within it, and he would be set free. ~ Ian McEwan

When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor. ~ Evan Osnos

It's only the giving that makes you what you are. ~ Ian Anderson

I'm not popular enough to be different ~ Homer Simpson

I once did an event with Ian Rankin where he said he didn't really need to do much background research because his books are set in the present, and I just thought: 'You lucky, lucky beast!' because as a historical novelist, I live constantly on the edge of wondering whether tissues had been invented. ~ Sara Sheridan

I like romantic comedies, as it is a fun and light thing to get involved with. ~ Henry Ian Cusick

I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies. ~ A.B. Simpson

What does it take to make you stop?"
Elizabeth flinched from the hatred in the voice she loved and drew a shaking breath, praying she could finish without starting to cry. "I've hurt you terribly, my love, and I'll hurt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never, I hope, as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. The difference is that I know it, and you don't-not yet."
"Are you finished now?"
"Not quite," she said, straightening at the sound of footsteps in the hall. "There's one more thing," she informed him, lifting her quivering chin. "I am not a Labrador retriever! You cannot put me out of your life, because I won't stay."
When she left, Ian stared at the empty room that had been alive with her presence but moments before, wondering what in hell she meant by her last comment. He glanced toward the door as Larimore walked in, then he nodded curtly toward the chairs in front of his desk, silently ordering the solicitor to sit down.
"I gathered from your message," Larimore said quietly, opening his legal case, "that you now wish to proceed with the divorce?"
Ian hesitated a moment while Elizabeth's heartbroken words whirled through his mind, juxtaposed with the lies and omissions that had begun on the night they met and continued right up to their last night together. He recalled t ~ Judith McNaught

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. ~ Ian McEwan

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths. ~ Charlie Simpson

The only good deed I'll be doing tonight is for the angels."
"The angels?"
"Haven't you heard? Every time I make you come, an angel gets his wings."
Brady dropped his smoky gaze to Gage's mouth for a beat. "We really need to leave. Now. ~ Kate Meader

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style. ~ Ian Jackson

I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it. ~ Ian McKellen

ACKBAR - O knavery Most vile, O trick of Empire's basest wit. A snare, a ruse, a ploy: and we the fools. What great deception hath been plied today - O rebels, do you hear? Fie, 'tis a trap! ~ Ian Doescher

We all need something that takes us out of day to day and reminds us that it's all ok."

Ian Tucker www.yoursimplepath.co.uk ~ Ian Tucker

I don't really know why it matters so much. Ian could be better at talking than me, or cooking, or working, or housework, or saving money, or earning money, or spending money, or understanding books or films; he could be nicer than me, better-looking, more intelligent, cleaner, more generous-spirited, more helpful, a better human being in any way you care to mention ... and I wouldn't really mind. Really. I accept and understand that you can't be good at everything, and I am tragically unskilled in some very important areas. But sex is different; knowing that a successor is better in bed is impossible to take, and I don't know why. ~ Nick Hornby

Acceptance means commitment, among other things. ~ Ian Hacking

I think I'm a bit gruffer than I used to be, and I'm certainly older. ~ Ian McKellen

Water conservation goes hand in hand with education. Teaching people that if you literally run the water while you brush your teeth - we go through 602 million gallons a day of waste in the United States because people are used to hearing the water run while they brush their teeth. ~ Ian Somerhalder

The abandonment was delicious. Something was pouring out of him, through his palm and into hers; something was spreading back up his arm, across his chest, constricting his throat. His only thought was a repetition: so this is it, it's like this, so this is it ... ~ Ian McEwan

This was when he first suspected that the kindly child-loving God extolled by his headmistress might not exist. As it turned out, most major world events suggested the same. But for Theo's sincerely godless generation, the question hasn't come up. No one in his bright, plate-glass, forward-looking school ever asked him to pray, or sing an impenetrable cheery hymn. There's no entity for him to doubt. His initiation, in front of the TV, before the dissolving towers, was intense but he adapted quickly. These days he scans the papers for fresh developments the way he might a listings magazine. As long as there's nothing new, his mind is free. International terror, security cordons, preparations for war - these represent the steady state, the weather. Emerging into adult consciousness, this is the world he finds. ~ Ian McEwan

She taught me how to ride the Dragon Coaster and what to do when you're flung into the mouth of whatever it is you think will kill you. Throw up your arms and laugh until you come out the other side. ~ Ian Morgan Cron

Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is. ~ Michael Ian Black

I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will prevent us from making similar blunders in the future... And yet it is important to know what happened before, and to try and make sense of it. For if we don't, we cannot understand our own times. ~ Ian Buruma

Give as you wish to live, it all come's back to you. And that's without exception ... ~ Ian Tucker

There's an insult buried in there somewhere, but I can't quite see it. ~ Ian Rankin

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. ~ Ian Hislop

I don't need these," Ian said, flashing emerald in his turquoise gaze for a split second, "when I have this."
With a casual swipe of his hand, he ripped his shirt open, causing buttons to fly everywhere. Another swipe took his sleep mask all the way off. Finally, he finger-combed his shoulder-length hair and smiled at his reflection in the rearview mirror.
"I am, after all, irresistible."
I couldn't contain my snort. "I resisted you just fine the day we met, or don't you remember me sticking a knife in your chest?"
Ian smiled with lazy wickedness. "I remember, but you seem to have forgotten that you kissed me first. And thoroughly enjoyed it. ~ Jeaniene Frost

It is a fake, but a good fake. Turkey is the land of the masterful fake. But it is far far from that hateful little eighth-floor apartment huddling between the roar of the expressway and the blare of the mosque. ~ Ian McDonald

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing ... ~ Ian Anderson

When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much. ~ Ian McKellen

It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks." ~ Michael Ian Black