Top 100 Fleming Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
Christopher Lee
#7. 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
#8. [On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.
Rosamond Lehmann
#9. Yet had Fleming not possessed immense knowledge and an unremitting gift of observation he might not have observed the effect of the hyssop mould. 'Fortune,' remarked Pasteur, 'favors the prepared mind.
Andre Maurois
#10. There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
Dorothy Hamill
#11. To Fleming, and to his readers, James Bond was a real person living in the modern world. The details of his life appear only sporadically in the books, but they proved vitally important in grounding him in his time, which made his extraordinary and often implausible adventures seem possible.
Henry Chancellor
#12. This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.
Isaac Asimov
#13. I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world.
William Boyd
#14. Jenny Fleming merely looked exasperated. 'That young man,' she said, 'ought to be plucked out of his pride and impaled on a thornbush. He introduced me to someone as the Controller of the King's Beam, last time we met.' Which at least had the merit of making her daughter laugh, if a little wildly.
Dorothy Dunnett
#15. I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.
Bob Kane
#16. I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.
Dorothy Hamill
#17. According to Harold Fleming, for instance, who was then director of the Southern Regional Council, a small Atlanta hotbed of what he now calls "premature integrationists," a moderate was "a white man without sidearms.
Calvin Trillin
#18. I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.
Christopher Lee
#19. When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.
Ella Maillart
#20. Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.
Terence Young
#21. No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date ...
C. Northcote Parkinson
#22. If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr.
Edward Medina
#23. Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.
Val Guest
#24. Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.
Martha Beck
#26. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.
Renee Fleming
#32. Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
Renee Fleming
#33. Ever heard of "The House of Diamonds"?
Ian Fleming
#34. I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
Ian Fleming
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
Renee Fleming
#39. 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
#40. I'm still talking about some heavy issues, but it feels a lot happier to me.
Shaun Fleming
#41. In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.
Peggy Fleming
#42. 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
#43. When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible.
Jacky Fleming
#44. 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
#45. I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.
Renee Fleming
#46. 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
#47. Never send a man where you can send a bullet.
Ian Fleming
#48. Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.
Renee Fleming
#49. His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.
Ian Fleming
#50. I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.
Renee Fleming
#51. In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.
Ian Fleming
#52. Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
Ian Fleming
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.
Ian Fleming
#56. 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
#57. I didn't to be like, "I have to write a new album. I need to get creative."
Shaun Fleming
#58. He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure
the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
Ian Fleming
#61. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.
Ian Fleming
#62. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
Renee Fleming
#67. (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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.
Ian Fleming
#71. Mania, my dear Mister Bond, is as priceless as genius. Dissipation
Ian Fleming
#73. 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
#74. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.
David Fleming
#79. 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
#80. Suspiciously Bond walked over and examined the screws which secured the panel to
Ian Fleming
#81. He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.
Ian Fleming
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. Bond sat down and looked across into the tranquil, lined sailor's face that he loved, honoured and obeyed.
Ian Fleming
#86. It was a room-shaped room with furniture-shaped furniture, and dainty curtains.
Ian Fleming
#88. Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit.
~Laura Hecox
Candace Fleming
#89. 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
#90. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.
Renee Fleming
#96. 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
#97. A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.
Ian Fleming
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. I should spend the money quickly, Commander Bond.
Ian Fleming
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