Top 100 Giles Quotes
#1. Unholy delight lit Giles's dark face to flashing brilliance. She realized that while he mightn't be handsome, he was breathtakingly attractive and brimming with potent masculinity more powerful than mere good looks.
Anna Campbell
#2. Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
Saul David
#3. It'll do you all the good in the world, Giles, to be a little uncertain of yourself".
Charles Williams
#4. When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe. Its introduction to Europe began in 1782 when a French Jesuit Father living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated
Sun Tzu
#5. My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
Warren Giles
#6. By 12.30, Giles had consumed five gin-rickies, four gin-and-tonics, three gin-and-its, two gin-and-bitters, and one gin.
Martin Amis
#7. When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.
Eamon
#8. We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.
Jenny Colgan
#9. Behave, Miss Greaves," he murmured under his breath, his voice husky and deep. "Fine words for a man who runs about St. Giles at night in a mask," she whispered. He frowned, glancing around. "Hush.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#10. Does that girl work here?' Robbie asked, gesturing at the screen behind which Mary had disappeared. 'All her life,' Sir Giles said. 'You remember Mary, Thomas?' 'I tried to drown her when we were both children,' Thomas said.
Bernard Cornwell
#11. Giles kissed her again, hard and furious. As if he hated her. He'd been in love for years, yet he'd never realized love could be like this. Like someone struck him with a club over and over again. Like fire devouring him. Sweet and terrible. Painful and fierce.
Anna Campbell
#12. Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.
Lee Child
#13. I believe that you wanted to love Marie - that you're enamored by the idea of love - but that you have no concept what love is. I think that's what you're searching for in St. Giles - some source of emotion, some inkling of what human feeling really is.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#14. Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.
Robert Fripp
#15. You do have to save my brother," she said, "because if you do not I will tell everyone in England that you are the Ghost of St. Giles.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#16. She would have stood by Giles's side, and shaken hands with people, a smile on her face. I could not do that. I had not the pride, I had not the guts. I was badly bred.
Daphne Du Maurier
#18. But it's wonderful,' said Mr. Giles, when he had explained, 'what a man will do, when his blood is up. I should have committed murder - I know I should - if we'd caught one of them rascals.
Charles Dickens
#19. Farmer Giles went home feeling very uncomfortable. He was finding that a local reputation may require keeping up, and that may prove awkward.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#21. What do you privately consult about?"
Haunted houses, exorcisms, that sort of thing," he answered.
Wow. You're like-"
Don't say it."
-Giles from Buffy."
He rolled his eyes. "If I had a quarter for every time someone said
that.
Rhiannon Frater
#22. 40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. This book has it all-unforgettable characters, beautiful language, throat-constricting suspense.
Jonathan Kellerman
#23. The trouble is that practically everything one does nowadays is illegal," said Giles gloomily. "That's why one has a permanent feeling of guilt.
Agatha Christie
#24. The last time Sean found trouble, she arrived in a package of blonde hair and blue eyes." ~ Giles on Jem
J.A. Belfield
#25. I do have a built-in advantage,' said Giles. 'I am my father's son.
Jeffrey Archer
#26. It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for the idea that since we only pass this way once, experience counts for everything.
Andrew Norman Wilson
#27. His eyes were dark, dangerous, and not at all cold. He burned with an internal inferno she wanted to touch. She stared into the gaze of a tiger and knew, even as she watched the cat retreat into the camouflage of a gentleman: The Duke of Wakefield was the Ghost of St. Giles.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#28. KATH: (Katherine) BRENT, daughter of Ed: Brent, dee'd., 300 acs. Northumberland Co., N.E. upon Quiough 421 Riv., S.E. upon land of Capt. Giles Brent. 9 Dec. 1662, p. 79, (554). (Capt. Gyles Brent, 4 May 1653, assigned to sd. Edm: Brent & by him given by will to sd. Kath.)
Nell Marion Nugent
#29. Sir, when the love of peace degenerates into fear of war, it becomes of all passions the most despicable." - Senator Giles of Virginia, to President Thomas Jefferson, before the War of 1812
Joe Buff
#30. For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.
Abbey Clancy
#31. However, this translation is, in the words of Dr. Giles, "excessively bad." He goes further in this criticism: "It is not merely a question of downright blunders, from which none can hope to be wholly exempt.
Sun Tzu
#32. The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had written Forty Words for Sorrow. Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent. If you miss Forty Words for Sorrow, you'll miss one of best novels of 2001.
Tony Hillerman
#33. As a rule Uncle Giles took not the slightest interest in anyone or anything except himself and his own affairs - indeed was by this time all but incapable of absorbing even the smallest particle of information about others, unless such information had some immediate bearing on his own case.
Anthony Powell
#34. I don't fly to the classics for comfort, as Giles does. I'm too frivolous. Worthy people always read the classics when things are difficult.
Elizabeth Goudge
#35. Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.
Agatha Christie
#36. The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.
Kimberly Giles
#37. I am a big believer in love. Love for me is what got me through.
Giles Duley
#38. Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is a talent to watch,
Giles Blunt
#39. The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.
Johnny Giles
#40. People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
Warren Giles
#41. Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?
Gail Giles
#42. Sword and shield, flesh and bone, I am your man, Sigurd Haraldarson. As long as the sun shines and the world endures, henceforth and for evermore.
Giles Kristian
#43. The day will only be as good as the thoughts you have.
Alison Giles
#45. Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.
Giles Andreae
#46. I liked my zone small, and I didn't want visitors.
Gail Giles
#47. The essence of the divine being is not power but compassion and love. And it's this love, and this love only, that whispers to me in defiance of the darkness: all will be well, all manner of things will be well.
Giles Fraser
#48. You look for the roles where, when you read it, you're just like, "Yes, I know that. I know that feeling. I know what it means to feel like that. I know this person." When you have a soulful connection to a part, that's a dream come true.
Giles Matthey
#49. I don't think there's any way you can worry about how many errors or how many bad plays you've made. You can get into a fielding funk just as quick as you can hitting.
Marcus Giles
#50. When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn't using my skills productively. I gave up photography - I walked away from it completely - and started doing care work.
Giles Duley
#51. stranger do, when he's in such a fix?" "He could set the
Lee Giles
#52. I'd best head to the library. Research beckons.
Rupert Giles
#53. antagonist having one hand strapped behind his back and the other
Giles Milton
#54. I should have known right then that I was dreaming. But oh how we hang on to dreams even when we are gifted the largest of clues.
Jesse Giles Christiansen
#55. Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are.
Kimberly Giles
#56. These guys totally agree that you're smokin' hot but think you're too young-"
"That means 'flat-chested'. Excuse me. I have to go somewhere and die of embarrassment
Gail Giles
#57. Break up? We didn't break up. He gave me away.
Gail Giles
#58. Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.
Giles Andreae
#59. I like to have fun, and the only way to have fun is to win.
Marcus Giles
#60. After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.
Giles Matthey
#61. If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.
Giles Matthey
#62. I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.
Laini Giles
#63. I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.
Christopher Golden
#64. Pardon me for finding the glass half full.
Rupert Giles
#65. Change isn't like a shutter click. It's never instant.
Lamar Giles
#67. Am I radiating openness? Do you feel the warmth of the springtime sun when I'm near? If so, please understand that sensation is actually my fiery disdain.
Lamar Giles
#68. If you do good things only because you fear punishment or rejection if you don't, does it really count? Think about it. Are they real choices or are you being held hostage?
Kimberly Giles
#69. At its best, Purple Ronnie puts little thoughts out there, on very high-volume selling items, that people use to make very personal connections with one another. And I'm actually very proud of that.
Giles Andreae
#70. My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.
Giles Duley
#71. All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.
Kimberly Giles
#72. You get mad at me, you kick the tire, I don't get a bruise, the tire doesn't care, and you're the only one hurting. How's that working for you, Kip?
Gail Giles
#73. All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.
Marcus Giles
#74. I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people do these things, they want to create more hatred. Fight it with love and education.
Giles Duley
#75. Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.
Giles Foden
#76. There was no relaxing when you lived a secret.
Gail Giles
#77. I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.
Giles Gilbert Scott
#78. At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn't good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate.
Giles Foden
#79. I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.
Johnny Giles
#80. Sam Allardyce should learn a bit of humidity
Johnny Giles
#81. Living in Manchester was like living on the moon ... wherever that might be
Johnny Giles
#82. You know what I figured out?"
I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276)
Gail Giles
#83. Great teams always have a Plan B. Look at Barcelona. Their Plan B is to stick to Plan A
Johnny Giles
#84. The local natives were particularly curious to know why the English required such huge quantities of pepper and there was much scratching of heads until it was finally agreed that English houses were so cold that the walls were plastered with crushed pepper in order to produce heat.
Giles Milton
#85. It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.
Giles Fraser
#86. They thought it was an enemy but it was only their own reflection.
Giles Foden
#87. For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.
Giles Duley
#88. Dogs find me irresistible." He lowered his voice to a conspiring whisper, aiming to put her at ease. "It's an alpha thing." Which was true, but was totally outrageous for him to claim.
Jennifer St. Giles
#89. A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.
Giles Duley
#90. Claritypoint: Your value does not come from what you look like, what you experience, or what you do. It comes from your love and the fact that you are a divine, irreplaceable child of God.
Kimberly Giles
#91. For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
Giles Duley
#92. You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other.
Giles Matthey
#94. Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?
Giles Smith
#95. To create more happiness and success in your life, you must change your policy about the nature of life and officially choose to see it as a classroom not a test.
Kimberly Giles
#96. The computer was the newest addition to the local library, and quickly had more viruses than the local whore house.
Giles Curtis
#97. I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
Adam Giles
#98. That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin.
Giles Fraser
#99. I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal.
Michael Giles
#100. Fear causes problems in your life because it fogs the lens through which you see yourself and your world.
Kimberly Giles
