Top 100 Giles's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.
Giles Foden
#4. Calzada de Calatrava, as Almadovar's brother once put it, 'is the sort of place where people spend their whole life saving for a decent gravestone in the cemetery.
Giles Tremlett
#5. 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
#6. An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.
Giles Foden
#7. I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols.
Giles Duley
#8. In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.
Giles Foden
#9. I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.
Giles Matthey
#10. Most bad behavior is about that person's core fears about themselves; it is rarely about you.
Kimberly Giles
#11. What's there to be nervous about? You just go out and play the game.
Marcus Giles
#12. How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break. They've Riise sitting on the bench who's a different class to this fella.
Johnny Giles
#13. People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.
Giles Duley
#14. When you're getting $2,000 a month in the minors, it's hard not to eat Taco Bell every day.
Marcus Giles
#15. You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.
Giles Foden
#16. An actor's job is to do their job. It's great if it's successful and it's fantastic when it's a huge hit, but at the same time, you're there to do a job and make sure you do it well.
Giles Matthey
#17. 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
#18. I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong.
Marcus Giles
#19. The universe uses every experience you have to help you grow and learn. No experience is wasted. Every choice you make and everything that happens to you because of other people's choices become your perfect lessons. As you learn to trust this truth, you will experience less fear and more peace.
Kimberly Giles
#20. Yet they are unmoved when told of the cruel blow that fortune has dealt them, happy to see out their days on this unknown and unspoiled atoll. They will tell you that the view from their windows is infinitely more magnificent than Manhattan's glittering skyline.
Giles Milton
#21. It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.
Giles Foden
#22. 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
#23. From time to time, I am asked
by people with an alarming lack of tact
why a man like myself, who has demonstrated an affinity for working with children, has none of his own. Other people's children are quite enough, thank you.
Rupert Giles
#24. I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.
Rupert Giles
#25. It's not worth it. We're going all the way to Halloween. You can get him then.
Marcus Giles
#26. If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.
Adam Giles
#27. I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I have no idea who this is or where he's coming from." The typical questions that actors have to ask themselves were very hard. I had to imagine, a little bit, and just made it work.
Giles Matthey
#28. For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream.
Giles Matthey
#29. I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.
Giles Andreae
#30. When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.
Giles Duley
#31. Claritypoint: You can choose to see your journey as a classroom without the fear of failure. Or you can choose to live in fear and see it as a test. It's up to you.
Kimberly Giles
#32. Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.
Giles Foden
#33. What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'
Giles Andreae
#34. Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category.
Marcus Giles
#35. Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you
Giles Fraser
#36. When it's cold & dark at night, and we're alone together, I long to take you in my arms, and cuddle you forever.
Giles Andreae
#37. There's this feeling, when you stop believing it's a show and you're there and this is happening.
Giles Matthey
#38. There's only one plan in football: win you next match.
Johnny Giles
#39. In my ideal world, it would be a soulful connection to the role because you've shared a lot of the same experiences as the character and you just feel so right in it. That's the first thing I look for.
Giles Matthey
#40. You provide a lot of people with entertainment, and that's what will happen. I don't think you should ever feel like you're used to anything of that nature because you're no different from anyone else.
Giles Matthey
#41. 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
#42. If anything's progressive, then we make progress.
Michael Giles
#44. Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone's behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them.
Kimberly Giles
#45. 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
#46. It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.
Giles Duley
#47. Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be ... smelly.
Rupert Giles
#48. Author C. S. Lewis wrote a beautiful and accurate definition of humility: "Humility is not thinking less of yourself ... it is thinking of yourself less." "It is about feeling safe so you can focus on other people. It is not about being in fear and seeing yourself as worthless!
Kimberly Giles
#49. Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.
Lamar Giles
#50. Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.
Giles Matthey
#51. I do have a built-in advantage,' said Giles. 'I am my father's son.
Jeffrey Archer
#52. 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
#53. antagonist having one hand strapped behind his back and the other
Giles Milton
#54. I'd best head to the library. Research beckons.
Rupert Giles
#55. When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.
Eamon
#56. 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
#57. stranger do, when he's in such a fix?" "He could set the
Lee Giles
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. I liked my zone small, and I didn't want visitors.
Gail Giles
#63. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. The day will only be as good as the thoughts you have.
Alison Giles
#68. 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
#69. It'll do you all the good in the world, Giles, to be a little uncertain of yourself".
Charles Williams
#70. Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?
Gail Giles
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. I am a big believer in love. Love for me is what got me through.
Giles Duley
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#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. 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
#81. All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.
Kimberly Giles
#82. My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.
Giles Duley
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#87. Change isn't like a shutter click. It's never instant.
Lamar Giles
#88. Pardon me for finding the glass half full.
Rupert Giles
#89. 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
#90. I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.
Laini Giles
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. I like to have fun, and the only way to have fun is to win.
Marcus Giles
#95. 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
#96. Break up? We didn't break up. He gave me away.
Gail Giles
#97. 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
#98. Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are.
Kimberly Giles
#99. 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
#100. 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
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