Ian Fleming Quotes

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • You
  • Stability

• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Living

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Done
  • Want
  • Feel

• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Work
  • Love

• There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Sports

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Blow

• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • People
  • Important
  • Questions

• I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Like
  • Two

• There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Want
  • Stars
  • Type

• For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall out, to accept or say good-bye. The moment I crossed the precipice, it no longer was a discipline - it became a passion, an urge to pursue. Then I experienced freedom. Freedom comes when the discipline revolutionizes the discipline as a passion for the art.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Good
  • Art
  • Freedom

• I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Nice

• Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

  

  Chi Chi Rodriguez
  • Live
  • Past
  • Present

• Every vice president since Mondale has lived up on this hill, on the twelve-acre campus of the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington. It's a pretty house with a wraparound porch and a white turret.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • House

• Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

  

  Joan Didion

• I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live