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“Eve: [watches Bond shave] Cut-throat razor. How very traditional.

James Bond: Well, I like to do some things the old-fashioned way.

Eve: Sometimes the old ways are the best.”
— James Bond, Skyfall
Tagged: razor, traditional, Old-Fashioned
“Do you see what comes of all this running around, Mr. Bond? All this jumping and fighting, it's exhausting! Relax. You need to relax... Ah well, mother's calling. I will give her a goodbye kiss for you.”
— Silva, Skyfall
Tagged: jumping, Fighting, exhausting, Death Threat, goodbye
“Q: There are only about six people in the world who could set up fail-safes like this.

James Bond: Can you get past them?

Q: I invented them.”
— Q, Skyfall
Tagged: fail-safes, Inventors
“Q: I'm guessing this is not official.

James Bond: Not even remotely.

Q: So much for my promising career in espionage.”
— Q, Skyfall
Tagged: Official, espionage
“James Bond: A gun and a radio. It's not exactly Christmas, is it?

Q: Were you expecting an exploding pen? We don't really go in for that anymore.”
— Q, Skyfall
Tagged: Gun, radio, Christmas, exploding pen
“[Bond is chasing Silva who escaped, trying to open a door]
James Bond: It won't open.

Q: Of course it will, put your back into it.

James Bond: Why don't you come down here and put your back into it?”
— Q, Skyfall
Tagged: opening a door, back, Sarcasm
“M: I fucked this up, didn't I?

James Bond: No. You did your job.”
— M, Skyfall
Tagged: fucked up, doing your job
“M: Is this where you grew up?

James Bond: Mm.

M: How old were you when they died?

James Bond: You know the answer to that. You know the whole story.

M: Orphans always make the best recruits.”
— M, Skyfall
Tagged: Orphan, Growing Up
“Chairman, Ministers, today I've repeatedly heard how irrelevant my department has become. 'Why do we need agents, the 00 section? Isn't it all rather quaint?' Well, I suppose I see a different world than you do and the truth is that what I see frightens me. I'm frightened because our enemies are no longer known to us. They do not exist on a map. They're not nations, they're individuals. And look around you. Who do you fear? Can you see a face, a uniform, a flag? No! Our world is not more transparent now, it's more opaque! It's in the shadows. That's where we must do battle. So before you declare us irrelevant, ask yourselves, how safe do you feel? Just one more thing to say, my late husband was a great lover of poetry, and, em, I suppose some of it sunk in, despite my best intentions. And here today, I remember this, I think, from Tennyson: 'We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are. One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'”
— M, Skyfall
Tagged: Irrelevant, opaque, Quaint, obsolete
“[Bond stares at the porcelain bulldog statue on M's desk]
James Bond: The whole office goes up in smoke and that bloody thing survives.

M: Your interior decorating tips have always been appreciated, 007.”
— M, Skyfall
Tagged: Irony, Sarcasm
“James Bond: Are you ready?

Kincade: I was ready before you were born, son.”
— James Bond, Skyfall
Tagged: Ready, Prepared
“Kincade: So who are we supposed to be fighting?

James Bond: No 'we' in it, Kincade. This is not your fight.”
— James Bond, Skyfall
Tagged: Fighting
“Q: Age is no guarantee of efficiency.

James Bond: And youth is no guarantee of innovation.”
— James Bond, Skyfall
Tagged: Age, Youth, Innovation, Efficiency
“Hello James, welcome. Do you like the island? [chuckles] My grandmother had an island when I was a boy. Nothing to boast of. You could walk along it in an hour. But still, it was—it was a paradise for us. One summer, we came for a visit and discovered the whole place had been infested with rats. They'd come on a fishing boat and had gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island, hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum, and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait. The rats come for the coconut, and...[imitates metallic scuttering] They fall into the drum, and after a month, you've trapped all the rats. But what did you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it. And they begin to get hungry, then one by one...[imitates rat munching sound] They start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what—do you kill them? No. You take them, and release them into the trees. Only now, they don't eat coconut anymore. Now they will only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors; this is what she made us.”
— Silva, Skyfall
Tagged: Rats, trapped, suirvival, Threat
“Some men are coming to kill us. We're going to kill them first.”
— James Bond, Skyfall
Tagged: Survival, Murder
“[re. the porcelain bulldog on M's desk.] The whole office goes up in smoke and that bloody thing survives?”
— James Bond, Skyfall
Tagged: Fire, Survival
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