Ian Fleming Quotes

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

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• I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Simple
  • Boy
  • Bronx

• We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Simple
  • Impact
  • Others

• I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • Live
  • Simple

• I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.

  

  Flume
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Simple
  • Act
  • Analysis

• I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • School
  • Teaching
  • Arts

• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Simple
  • Religion
  • Kindness

• I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Risk

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Simple
  • Present

• Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Simple
  • Quality
  • Environment

• We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Important
  • Giving

• The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Bad
  • Soul
  • Simple

• I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Poetry

• When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Simple

• I'm fascinated by simple joy.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Simple
  • Joy
  • Fascinated

• I don't have the faith now. I certainly believe in Jesus - you know, that he existed and he was a very nice man. And who can disagree with a simple philosophy of treat other people like you'd like to be treated yourself? It's absolutely - nothing I can disagree with that.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Believe
  • Nice
  • Simple

• She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Simple
  • Dark
  • Eye

• I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Experience

• Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • People
  • Nature
  • Slave

• Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

  

  Georges Didi-Huberman
  • Power
  • Photography
  • Memory

• There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Simple