Ian Fleming Quotes

When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

Ian Fleming

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• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Women
  • Yourself

• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Design

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Know
  • Company
  • Stars

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Change
  • Opinion
  • Stupid

• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Always

• Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • May
  • Earth
  • Cool

• I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Friends
  • Most

• I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • Real
  • Think

• I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Country
  • Political
  • Posture

• If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.

  

  Ian Rush
  • People
  • Football
  • Famous

• I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.

  

  Emiliano Salinas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Unavailable wars are always just.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Always
  • Wars

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

  

  John Burnside
  • Earth

• When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • God
  • Song
  • First

• When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • God