“I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“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.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“Prohibition is the trigger of crime.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“Bond came to the conclusion that Tilly Masterton was one of those girls whose hormones had got mixed up. He knew the type well and thought they and their male counterparts were a direct consequence of giving votes to women and 'sex equality.' As a result of fifty years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused, not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits--barren and full of frustrations, the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied. He was sorry for them, but he had no time for them.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“I don’t drink tea. I hate it. It’s mud. Moreover it’s one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire. Be a good girl and make me some coffee.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“Bond had taken her to the station and had kissed her once hard on the lips and had gone away. It hadn't been love, but a quotation had come into Bond's mind as his cab moved out of Pennsylvania station: 'Some love is fire, some love is rust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“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.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“clean-shaven and dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American millionaires.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“Bond slowly, wearily bent his head and looked at the ground between his spread hands. It was the girl, Tilly. She was watching the buildings below. She had a rifle – a rifle that must have been among the innocent golf clubs – ready to fire on them. Damn and blast the silly bitch!”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of a person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no one.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“It was the puritan in him that couldn’t take it.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“It was as if Goldfinger had been put together with bits of other people’s bodies.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“Bond broke into his warehouse one night and left a thermite bomb. He then went and sat in a café a mile away and watched the flames leap above the horizon of roof-tops and listened to the silver cascade of the fire-brigade bells.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“I wouldn’t be surprised if in fifty years’ time we have not totally exhausted the gold content of the earth!”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“Social errors made no impression on Bond,”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“Slowly the red dawn broke over the endless plain of black grass that gradually turned to the famous Kentucky blue as the sun ironed out the shadows.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“The gloomy hall was also the main living-room. A meagre fire flickered behind the fire-irons in the wide hearth and two club chairs and a Knole sofa stood impassively watching the flames. Between them on a low settee was a well-stocked drink tray. The wide spaces surrounding this spark of life were crowded with massive Rothschildian pieces of furniture of the Second Empire, and ormolu, tortoiseshell, brass and mother-of-pearl winked back richly at the small fire. Behind this orderly museum, dark panelling ran up to a first-floor gallery which was reached by a heavy curved stairway to the left of the hall. The ceiling was laced with the sombre wood-carving of the period.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“Oddjob turned and walked stolidly back towards them. When he was half way across the floor, and without pausing or taking aim, he reached up to his hat, took it by the rim and flung it sideways with all his force. There was a loud clang. For an instant the rim of the bowler hat stuck an inch deep in the panel Goldfinger had indicated, then it fell and clattered on the floor. Goldfinger smiled politely at Bond. ‘A light but very strong alloy, Mr Bond. I fear that will have damaged the felt covering, but Oddjob will put on another.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
Ian Fleming
Born place: in Mayfair, London, England
Born date May 28, 1908
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“...as dark as the night gets without a moon, it is really not true darkness. It's just waiting for light to return.”
― Elizabeth Haydon, quote from The Floating Island
“A dictator decrees,” she later wrote, “a president asks Congress for permission to organize.”
― Denise Kiernan, quote from The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
“No matter how good your kid is, sometimes life has a way of bringing shit to them that no one can foresee or protect against. If that happens to Kylie, I’ll just have to be there to help her get through it.”
― Jasinda Wilder, quote from Falling Under
“understanding something didn’t make it easier.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Splendour Falls
“El desempleo multiplica la delincuencia, y los salarios humillantes la estimulan. Nunca tuvo tanta actualidad el viejo proverbio que enseña: El vivo vive del bobo, y el bobo de su trabajo. En cambio, ya nadie dice, porque nadie lo creería, aquello de trabaja y prosperarás.
El derecho laboral se está reduciendo al derecho de trabajar por lo que quieran pagarte y en las condiciones que quieran imponerte. El trabajo es el vicio más inútil. No hay en el mundo mercancía más barata que la mano de obra. Mientras caen los salarios y aumentan los horarios, el mercado laboral vomita gente. Tómelo o déjelo, que la cola es larga.”
― Eduardo Galeano, quote from Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
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