Sean Connery Quotes
Be careful what you shoot at . . . most things in here don't react too well to bullets.
The Hunt for Red October. Directed by John McTiernan, performances by Sean Connery, Paramount Pictures, 1990.
Confederate General Wheeler had introduced a new tactic of mining the roads with improvised explosive devices which took their toll on Sherman’s troops. At the time, this was against the ruled of war. Sherman ordered a few Confederate prisoners to the front and required them to walk ahead of his troops and demine the roads. He then allowed some of the prisoners to return to General Wheeler with a note from Sherman, explaining that if the Confederates persisted in this unethical form of warfare he would march all of the Confederate prisoners in the front of the troops and force them do remove the explosives by hand regardless of the danger. Wheeler never planted land mines again.
Many have speculated that this personal grudge may have been one of the motivating factors leading Bush to his disastrous Iraq War decisions.
Canada's first female Prime Minister
Ellsworth was pleading for resolving the slavery issue then.
Sir Sean Connery was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. Originating the role in Dr. No, Connery played Bond in six of Eon Productions' entries and made his final appearance in the Jack Schwartzman-produced Never Say Never Again.
