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.
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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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.
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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.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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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.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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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.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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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?'
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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.
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He who does not tire, tires adversity.
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I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
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God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.
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We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
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Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.
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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.
