Sean Connery Quotes

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

Sean Connery

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• We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Revolution

• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Fire

• The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Worst

• 'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • America
  • Government
  • Fire

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Today
  • Technology
  • Fire

• I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Opinion
  • Fire
  • Wind

• The gun is not out of Irish politics.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Politics
  • Gun
  • Irish

• But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Good
  • Real
  • Fire

• The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Society
  • Fire
  • Ethical

• A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

  

  Mae West
  • Women
  • Man
  • Fire

• I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Up
  • Country
  • Imagination

• The creation of Dianetics is a milestone for Man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and the arch.' Opening line.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Fire

• It’s legend now, but legend is the smoke from the fire, and the wood that the fire consumes is the substance.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Fire
  • Legend

• while lighting a fire on the beach Fuck! Go to Alaska! No, no, no, no. You fucking asshole ocean! No!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Fire
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• Upon him I will visit famine and a fire.Till all around him desolation ringsAnd all the demons in the outer darkLook on amazed and recognizeThat vengeance is the business of a man.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Business
  • Fire

• They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Men
  • Words
  • Picture

• My father was a San Francisco firefighter. He also was an amateur artist. Art ran deep on his side of the family, which originated in Spain. He painted our portraits. My mom, Jacqueline, was Scots-Irish. They met in 1947 when dad played for the Houston Buffalos, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • Family
  • Art
  • Father

• Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Heart
  • Energy
  • Wisdom

• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • America
  • Movie

• If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Great
  • Think

• The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Fire
  • Irish
  • Scots