Top 100 Bob Fleming Quotes
#1. When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.
Peggy Fleming
#2. Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.
Renee Fleming
#5. It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence apparat of the West.
Ian Fleming
#6. Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deducted, or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science.
William Fleming
#7. Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
Christopher Lee
#8. Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit.
~Laura Hecox
Candace Fleming
#10. It was a room-shaped room with furniture-shaped furniture, and dainty curtains.
Ian Fleming
#11. Bond sat down and looked across into the tranquil, lined sailor's face that he loved, honoured and obeyed.
Ian Fleming
#12. While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.
Renee Fleming
#13. 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.
Ian Fleming
#14. I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.
Renee Fleming
#15. He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.
Ian Fleming
#16. Suspiciously Bond walked over and examined the screws which secured the panel to
Ian Fleming
#17. 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
#18. Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.
David Fleming
#19. I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.
Renee Fleming
#20. It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more.
Peggy Fleming
#22. The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not.
Ian Fleming
#23. He also gave me some advice that I follow to this day: Sing in the mirror. If it looks funny, it's wrong.
Renee Fleming
#25. Mania, my dear Mister Bond, is as priceless as genius. Dissipation
Ian Fleming
#26. 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.
Ian Fleming
#27. Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.
Peggy Fleming
#28. And now that you have seen a really evil man, you will know how evil they can be and you will go after them to destroy them in order to protect yourself and the people you love. You won't wait to argue about it. You know what they look like now and what they can do to people.
Ian Fleming
#29. A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
Anne Taylor Fleming
#30. I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading ... I wasn't reading anything great until I got older, but I used to read Agatha Christie mysteries and all of Ian Fleming's 'James Bond' novels.
Michael Riedel
#31. I met my new partner [in Indiana] and she asked if I wanted to move out of New York. I said yeah, and we got a house that's way cheaper than renting a closet in New York.
Shaun Fleming
#32. He's not a bad guy really, except he's so crooked, you shake hands with him you better count your fingers afterwards.
Ian Fleming
#33. fond," one catty countess recalled, "with diamonds scattered
Candace Fleming
#34. (At an intersection on the main road from Nyon to Geneva, for instance, there is a neat villa, window-boxes and all, that reveals itself on closer inspection to be a mighty stressed-concrete pillbox.) Military
Ian Fleming
#35. We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science ... but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.
John Ambrose Fleming
#36. They paddled easily, in unison, the paddles turning in their hands so that they did not leave the water on the forward stroke. The small waves slapped softly against the bows. Otherwise they made no noise. It was dark. Nobody saw them go. They just left the land and went off across the sea.
Ian Fleming
#38. Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
Renee Fleming
#39. A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.
Ian Fleming
#40. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.
Renee Fleming
#41. So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?
Frank J. Fleming
#42. History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep changing parts.
Ian Fleming
#43. I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]
Ian Fleming
#45. I should spend the money quickly, Commander Bond.
Ian Fleming
#46. 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
#47. A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.
Marjorie Fleming
#48. A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.
Ian Fleming
#49. Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.
Renee Fleming
#50. I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.
Renee Fleming
#51. She was pretty, yeah, but pretty like hundreds of other girls. You," he dabbed the bread in the air as if sketching her, "you're ... memorable. Who you are just shines through your face.
Julia Spencer-Fleming
#52. Never send a man where you can send a bullet.
Ian Fleming
#53. My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me.
Marjorie Fleming
#54. I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.
Renee Fleming
#55. So I can be the girl from Titanic who stays high and dry while you, the guy, vanish beneath the icy waves? I don't think so.
Julia Spencer-Fleming
#56. When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible.
Jacky Fleming
#57. Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.
Renee Fleming
#58. In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.
Peggy Fleming
#59. I'm still talking about some heavy issues, but it feels a lot happier to me.
Shaun Fleming
#60. Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
Ian Fleming
#61. When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
Renee Fleming
#62. When you're on the road for six months of the year and you're paying New York prices and not even living in your apartment, it just didn't make any sense. So I had to get out of there.
Shaun Fleming
#63. She seemed to Bond to give a quick involuntary shrug of the shoulders as she spoke, but then she leant impulsively towards him. 'I have some news for you from Mathis. He was longing to tell you himself. It's about the bomb. It's a fantastic story.
Ian Fleming
#64. Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.
Renee Fleming
#65. I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
Ian Fleming
#66. Ever heard of "The House of Diamonds"?
Ian Fleming
#67. When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.
Dorothy Hamill
#68. Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
Renee Fleming
#69. For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.
Renee Fleming
#70. Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived ... I'm still learning all the time.
Renee Fleming
#71. If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.
Renee Fleming
#74. The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who made the RC's vows of celibacy seem like a crime against the human gene pool.
Julia Spencer-Fleming
#76. He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure
the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
Ian Fleming
#77. Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
Ian Fleming
#78. It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.
Renee Fleming
#79. (The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
Alexander Fleming
#80. I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.
Sarah Hughes
#81. For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
Renee Fleming
#82. You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.
Ian Fleming
#83. It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
Alexander Fleming
#85. In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential ... Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.
Renee Fleming
#86. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.
Ian Fleming
#89. I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
Tony Parsons
#90. I didn't to be like, "I have to write a new album. I need to get creative."
Shaun Fleming
#91. Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.
Ian Fleming
#92. The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got into the Fleming books after watching 'A View To A Kill' a few years later.
Stephen Cole
#93. Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.
Ian Fleming
#94. Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!
Christopher Lee
#95. Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.
Renee Fleming
#96. One Saturday, he had gone to take the subway to Pennsylvania Station en route for the Soviet week-end rest camp at Glen Cove, the former Morgan estate on Long Island.
Ian Fleming
#97. Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
Ian Fleming
#98. In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.
Ian Fleming
#99. I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.
Renee Fleming
#100. His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.
Ian Fleming
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