James Bond Classic Quotes & Sayings

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore. — Evelyn Waugh

Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover. — James Dean

The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one. — Marianne Williamson

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq. — Ahmed Chalabi

Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself. — Matthew Quick

I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night. — John Legend

Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good. — Arcangela Tarabotti

Life, at all times full of pain, is more painful in our time than in the two centuries that preceded it. The attempt to escape from pain drives men to triviality, to self-deception, to the invention of vast collective myths. But these momentary alleviations do but increase the sources of suffering in the long run. Both private and public misfortune can only be mastered by a process in which will and intelligence interact: the part of will is to refuse to shirk the evil or accept an unreal solution, while the part of intelligence is to understand it, to find a cure if it is curable, and, if not, to make it bearable by seeing it in its relations, accepting it as unavoidable, and remembering what lies outside it in other regions, other ages, and the abysses of interstellar space — Bertrand Russell

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation. — James C. Scott

My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence. — Mark Gatiss

He smiled. And as I looked at the naked beauty of the expression, I fell in love with him.
It was that simple, that complicated. — Charlotte McConaghy