30 August 2010

Ok, I'll bite

"You know what? said Major Dexter Smythe to the octopus.

Ian Fleming
"Octopussy" (1965)

26 August 2010

That's tellin' him

All right. You're askin' for trouble. And you're gonna get it too. And don't you forget it, either.

The Cisco Kid TV series
"Rustling" (1950)
Season 1, Episode 3
screenplay: J. Benton Cheney

The French

The French took great pride in their arrangements for the signing of the peace treaty. The event was to be an exercise of two qualities at which they excelled -- grandeur and revenge.

John Milton Cooper, Jr.
Woodrow Wilson - A Biography (2009)

24 August 2010

When you come to a conclusion, jump

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
Goldfinger (1959)

05 August 2010

Tempus non fugit

"I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime."

Shirley Jackson
Life Among The Savages (1953)