Sean Connery Quotes

But I wouldn't call myself sadistic.

Sean Connery

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• Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • World
  • Great
  • Song

• Pilates is great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Pilates

• To create a work of art is to create the world.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.

  

  Dylan Walsh
  • Up
  • World
  • America

• I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.

  

  James H. Clark
  • Believe
  • Religious

• There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

  

  Leon Wieseltier
  • People
  • Religious
  • Moral

• If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

  

  Don Young
  • Sleep

• You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.

  

  Ugo Mochi
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Imagination

• He was an excellent football coach. He had a lot of success here. He was a real gentleman. I knew him pretty well. He was one of the finest men I ever knew.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Men
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Think
  • Know
  • Act

• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Men
  • True
  • Religion

• Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • Democracy
  • Agreement
  • Variety

• Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Adequacy
  • Military establishment
  • Peace

• I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Book

• Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Man
  • Free
  • Black

• People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • People
  • Game

• It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.

  

  Ann Veneman
  • Brain

• The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Judgment
  • Viewpoint
  • Atrocities

• After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Military
  • Administration
  • Dictator

• I was tied down in that chair for 10 minutes and experienced what it was like to be completely powerless while someone else has complete dominance. It's sadistic, even though I find Richard to be a really lovely human being. That's what the whole film "Tickled" is about. It's not a film about tickling, but I think tickling offers a really good visual metaphor for the much bigger ideas that we were trying to get at about power and control - by people who have a lot of money - over people without money and who have no power in the relationship.

  

  David Farrier
  • Power
  • Control
  • Relationship

• Do not need to look for reasons to hate when there is reason to love.

  

  Lara Fabian
  • Love
  • Need
  • Reasons

• Some things are just perfect, even when they don't make any sense.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Perfect
  • Sense

• But I wouldn't call myself sadistic.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Sadistic