Top 100 Quotes About Iain
#1. Iain didn't know what to say to her. They had all asked an incredible amount from her. She was such an innocent, too. Hell, she wasn't even married, and yet they'd demanded she deliver a baby. He wasn't even certain if she knew how Isabelle had conceived the babe.
Julie Garwood
#2. Fictional realms are usually terrible places to vacation, as they tend to be full of monsters and conflicts - Narnia and Middle-earth would both be good places to get killed - but I wouldn't mind visiting the worlds of Iain M. Banks's 'Culture.' You'd just have a hard time getting me to leave.
Tim Pratt
#3. You want to watch him, Julia," he told me. "He may look harmless enough, but appearances can be deceiving." Geoff grinned. "That's slander, that is. You know I always behave like a perfect gentleman." "Right then, Sir Galahad," Iain said dryly.
Susanna Kearsley
#4. Iain?"
"Mmm?"
"If the bairn is a lass, I'd like to name her after our mothers - Mara Elesaid."
"'Tis a bonnie name. And if 'tis a laddie?"
"Then we shall name him after his father."
"Och, well, 'tis a grand idea. And what name would that be?"
"You daftie!
Pamela Clare
#5. [T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism.
Rebecca Solnit
#6. I felt tears coming and for some reason, buried my head in Iain's chest. It was firm and muscled and he smelt so wonderful.
I realised what I was doing and pulled away, but a big string of snot hung between my nose and his shirt pocket.
Robert Bryndza
#7. Let me know, Iain." "Let you know what?" "If you're going to keep her or not." "And if I'm not?" "Then I am.
Julie Garwood
#8. Have you always been this skilled with women? - Joseph to Iain
Pamela Clare
#9. Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love your strength and pigheadedness. And I know you love me. And sometimes love makes people go a little crazy. The insanity won't last forever ... I hope.
Kirsten Miller
#10. Would ya like to
" Iain paused, shocked as the pretty woman turned and hurried away from him. To himself, he finished, "Get a drink with me?
Michelle M. Pillow
#11. Judith took a deep breath. "Aye, you captured Iain's wife," she said again. "But he married your daughter.
Julie Garwood
#12. Iain now calls you Jessica Fletcher, and he said I can tell you things within reason, and we can both sit back and wait for you to solve our cases. And that he'll be consulting you on one or two others, but I think he was joking.
E.J. Lamprey
#13. Beau, will you please watch the entrance for us?"
"What should I do if I see anyone suspicious?"
"Kick a car," Iain said.
"Kick a car?"
"To set off the alarm."
"Gotcha," Beau said. "Good thinking.
Kirsten Miller
#14. You were inside my body, but somehow 'tis my soul you touched, Iain Mackinnon.
Pamela Clare
#15. Good. Now let's go down to the pub and meet the townsfolk," Iain said.
"Bar," Euann corrected, just to be contrary.
"Let's go down to the pub before I hit ya with a bar," Iain said.
Michelle M. Pillow
#16. I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
Ian Rankin
#17. she had to admit the essential difference between Iain and herself: he believed in the possibility of a carnation-strewn, uncomplicated life, and Lola did not. perhaps Iain had thought he could convince her, but grew weary of the endeavor.
Amanda Eyre Ward
#18. That made sense of gabby meetings: salient points isolated from the gush of acoustic froth. This paper belonged on a clipboard, not being defaced by dud literature.
--Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair
#19. Art and science are made when people are terrified that they are going to die. (about "Arcadia" by Iain Pears)
Jen Campbell
#20. ... No matter what happens to me, watch over her."
"You needn't ask. You ken I will--wi' my life."
"My love lies upon her."
Iain grinned. "And her's upon you. I can see it. Now go to her."
-Iain and Morgan
Pamela Clare
#21. I am not answering these questions anymore," I said to him as I took my plate to the sink. "We should have gone metric years ago."
Iain Banks
Iain Banks
#22. You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you."
Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me.
Pamela Clare
#23. Go to hell," she snapped, hating how he made her lose her cool elegance.
"Already been, my dear. The service was not up to my standards."
Elizabeth and Iain.
Charlotte Featherstone
#24. Well." Vivien smiled, swinging her legs. "At least when Iain starts yelling, his accent gets thicker, so you usually can't understand a word he's ... No, don't pull that one," she stopped me suddenly. "That one I do recognize. It's some sort of a daisy, or something.
Susanna Kearsley
#25. He didn't see the look his brothers shared or overhear the vow they made to one another
that if any one of the four of them were to make it back from Ticonderoga, it would be Iain.
Pamela Clare
#26. The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
Iain McGilchrist
#27. My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it,
Iain Banks
#28. Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
Iain Duncan Smith
#29. [I]f I suffered only one fool gladly, I assure you it would be you.
Iain M. Banks
#30. I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
Iain Banks
#31. Faith is belief without reason; we operate on reason and nothing but. I have zero faith in my crew, just absolute confidence.
Iain M. Banks
#32. People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.
Iain Banks
#33. I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
Iain Banks
#34. If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
Iain Sinclair
#35. then there's nothing worse I can wish on you than to be exactly the fuckhead you so obviously are.
Iain M. Banks
#36. 5126We are a mongrel race, our past a history of tangles, our sources obscure, our rowdy upbringing full of greedy, short-sighted empires and cruel, wasteful diasporas.
Iain M. Banks
#37. had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was like at the moment,
Iain M. Banks
#38. I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
Iain Banks
#39. Besides, it left the humans in the Culture free to take care of the things that really mattered in life, such as sports, games, romance, studying dead languages, barbarian societies and impossible problems, and climbing high mountains without the aid of a safety harness.
Iain M. Banks
#40. the rich just bribe their way out. So yes, as far as the rulers are concerned, it works.
Iain M. Banks
#42. I like to think that somewhere out there, on a planet exactly like ours, two people exactly like you and me made totally different choices and that, somewhere, we're still together. That's enough for me.
Iain Thomas
#43. You are well within your rights to stand up, interrupt everyone around you and say, 'This is not who I am. This is not what I want. I'm sorry, but you've mistaken me for somebody else.
Iain S. Thomas
#44. Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!
Iain M. Banks
#45. All reality seemed to hinge on those infinitesimal bundles of meaning.
Iain M. Banks
#46. You might call them soft, because they're very reluctant to kill, and they might agree with you, but they're soft the way the ocean is soft, and, well; ask any sea captain how harmless and puny the ocean can be.
Iain M. Banks
#47. the difference between the living and the dead. The living run away when you shoot at them.
Iain Rob Wright
#48. Everyone just kind of leans their expectations of who you are on you and it makes you petrified of who you really might be.
Iain S. Thomas
#49. I'm from out of town, he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
Iain Banks
#50. Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear
Iain Banks
#51. The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.
Iain Pears
#52. I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.
Iain Banks
#53. I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.
Iain Banks
#54. He felt the slowly healing polarization of his mind, matching his to hers, the alignment of all his prejudices and conceits to the lodestone of the image she represented for him.
Iain M. Banks
#55. It meant something to climb, to haul this sack of bones and flesh all this way, and then look, then think, then be. She could have taken a flyer here any time when she'd been recovering, but she hadn't, even though Jase had suggested it. That was too easy. Being here wouldn't have meant anything.
Iain M. Banks
#56. You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.
Iain Sinclair
#57. [Andrea] Leadsom has compassion ... a real steel and a real determination and that velvet glove of compassion that she really cares about people.
Iain Duncan Smith
#58. Well, in the end, there was no helping this. Sometimes you just had to adopt the attitude summed up by, Too bad.
Iain M. Banks
#59. ...drunk enough on earth's liquors to relish the prospect of the knife.
Iain Sinclair
#60. I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
Iain Banks
#61. Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.
Iain M. Banks
#62. Who you are is less important than what you seem.
Iain Pears
#63. I'm not jumping on the Andy Johnson for England bandwagon - I'm driving it!
Iain Dowie
#65. The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.
Iain McGilchrist
#66. With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
Iain Duncan Smith
#67. Willy, one of the guys at the distillery, comes up with what Oliver and I agree is the best definition of what a 'dram' actually is: 'A measure of whisky that is pleasing to both guest and host.
Iain Banks
#68. She was real to me. And while I can be logical about this, logic has never once mended a broken heart or fixed a sundered soul. She has poisoned the very core of me. A dream has killed me
Iain S. Thomas
#69. Conscious cooperation was more efficient than feral competition?
Iain M. Banks
#70. This is why it hurts the way it hurts.
You have too many words in your head. There are too many ways to describe the way you feel. You will never have the luxury of a dull ache.
You must suffer through the intricacy of feeling too much
Iain S. Thomas
#71. Naturally, also, both sides were convinced they had right on their side, not that either was remotely naive enough to think that had any possible bearing on the outcome whatsoever.
Iain Banks
#72. I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
Iain McGilchrist
#73. My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
Iain Banks
#74. We may need to learn how to lament and weep before the Lord and recognize our sins and those of our fellow Christians that have caused God to depart from our midst. In the midst of the pain of our lamentation, however, our confidence may yet be placed in God's faithfulness. As
Iain M. Duguid
#75. I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
Iain Banks
#76. The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
Iain Duncan Smith
#77. Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.
Iain McGilchrist
#78. When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.
Iain De Caestecker
#79. What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?
Iain M. Banks
#80. My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
Iain Duncan Smith
#81. I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
Iain Glen
#82. First person singular obtaining colloquial orgasm within a Caledonian sandwich' it said, then looked annoyed, and spoke incoherently into a grille set in its belly which replied. It looked up and said, 'Sorry, as I was saying: I come in peace
Iain M. Banks
#83. Ulver Seich woke up in the best possible way. She surfaced with a languorous slowness through fuzzy layers of luxurious half-dreams and memories of sweetness, sensuality and sheer carnal bliss ... to find it all merging rather splendidly into reality, and what was happening right now.
Iain M. Banks
#84. History is a series of difficult choices. The only reason there's anything left of the human race, the only reason we're still here is because men like me made those difficult choices
Iain S. Thomas
#85. I had high hopes for that girl, but too much of that sort of nonsense and I think her intelligence will explosively dismantle
Iain M. Banks
#86. I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that.
Iain Dowie
#88. Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you're not doing it right.
Iain M. Banks
#89. It made me feel good to know that I could see him and he couldn't see me, and that I was aware and fully conscious and he wasn't
Iain Banks
#90. There is only darkness, starless and complete. The waves glitter like a million dull knives.
Iain Banks
#91. The conversation between your fingers and someone else's skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.
Iain Thomas
#92. I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn't get it. They may think they get it, but they don't. This is the sign you've been looking for. You were meant to read these words.
Iain S. Thomas
#93. the battle-memes of the invading alien consciousness aided by the thought processes and shared knowledge of the by now obviously completely overwhelmed ship. With
Iain M. Banks
#94. By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.
Iain Duncan Smith
#95. After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
Iain Duncan Smith
#96. He remembers night, sleep, the bed, their shared comas,
A certain source of fondness in the night.
(She saw, no, expected, a dawn from every light.
Such was her fault)
Iain Banks
#97. For a poet the world is always static in the sense that you're a mass observer and you can't afford to care whether people are busy or not. You're a witness.
Iain Sinclair
#98. The Idirans themselves had evolved on their planet Idir as the top monster from a whole planetful of monsters.
Iain M. Banks
#99. And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.
Iain Pears
#100. Even though he is mad and I am sane.
Iain Banks
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