Ian Fleming Quotes
Ian Fleming Quotes
I am a poet in deeds-not often in words.
1094You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face.
2268 I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him - own any larger piece of him than I now did.
2443 People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.
2711 The conventional parabola-sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness-was to him shameful and hypocritical.
1223 When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.
4024 I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good.
- from Quantum of Solace
2548 He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure-the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
2419 If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.
1976 Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
3841 Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.
3301 The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman -a matter of millimetres.
4362 All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.
4821 She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.
3919 For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.
1337 History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
3673 Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
2623 Unless she married soon, Bond thought for the hundredth time, or had a lover, her cool air of authority might easily become spinsterish and she would join the army of women who had married a career.
1900 His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.
3843 You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.
3196 They had a table near the rail round the huge floor. Bond was spellbound. He found many of the girls very beautiful. The music hammered its way into his pulse until he almost forgot what he was there for.
4501 Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.
4131 Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.
1467 It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
1870 Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.
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