Top 100 Bosch Quotes
#1. Walls within walls, Bosch thought. He wondered what the owners did with all of their space besides fearfully guard it.
Michael Connelly
#2. time. He also discovered that the burglar was still inside. It was this discovery that ultimately brought Detective Harry Bosch and his partner, Jerry Edgar, to the Three Kings Pawnshop.
Michael Connelly
#5. Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.
David Bosch
#6. Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.
Edward Dahlberg
#7. I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've always been very fond of this painter who lived and worked in the 15th century.
Frans De Waal
#8. To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love.
David Bosch
#9. Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#10. If this was a normal cover for a normal book,I would tell it's FANTASTIC!GRIPPING!
(according to all book covers they're fantastic and gripping)
Pseudonymous Bosch
#11. I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.
Roselyne Bosch
#12. Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.
Juan Bosch
#13. Bosch knew the dawn had nothing on the dusk. Dawn always came up ugly, as if the sun was clumsy and in a hurry. The dusk was smoother, the moon more graceful. Maybe it was because the moon was more patient. In life and nature, Bosch thought, darkness always waits.
Michael Connelly
#14. With answering howls of rage, the vampires charged the werewolves, who met them head-on in the center of the ballroom.
The noise was like nothing Clary had ever heard. If Bosch's paintings of hell had come with a soundtrack, they would have sounded like this.
Cassandra Clare
#15. It is something that I always found quite unfair: wondering why the Jews never rebelled when deported.
Roselyne Bosch
#17. Only bad books have good endings.
If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#18. Closers. So let's close this one out. Bosch and Rider stood
Michael Connelly
#19. All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society's institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.
Michael Connelly
#21. I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
Robert Bosch
#23. The church is not made up of spiritual giants; only broken men can lead others to the cross.
David Bosch
#24. USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#26. There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys
prosecution and defense
dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at.
Michael Connelly
#27. Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#28. Wait - something's gumming up Bosch. (Computers aren't as powerful as most people think; running even a small and rather stupid intern can really bog down a server.)
Charles Stross
#30. The begging snapped into a sharp muffled shriek, just one, just the one terrible muted cry. Krista couldn't move. She stared at the door as if it were a nightmare painting from Hieronymus Bosch's personal, tortured hell. Then
Robert Crais
#31. Bremmer stared uneasily and Bosch dismissed him with his hand. The reporter closed the door and went to his own car.
Michael Connelly
#32. That's justice," she said, nodding at the statue. "She doesn't hear you. She doesn't see you. She can't feel you and won't speak to you. Justice, Detective Bosch, is just a concrete blonde.
Michael Connelly
#33. Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.
David Bosch
#34. I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night
John Lennon
#35. Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention."
"Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?
Pseudonymous Bosch
#36. This is a Hieronymous Bosch of facts and figures and blood and graphs.
Lorrie Moore
#37. Working homicide for so many years, Bosch could not be surprised anymore by the horrors people inflicted on each other. But the horrors people saved for themselves were a different story.
Michael Connelly
#38. Bosch knew that department policy held that deadly force was justified if it was used to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to an officer or a citizen. Mendenhall was not required to identify herself or give Ellis the opportunity to drop his weapon.
Michael Connelly
#39. IN THE UNFORTUNATE EVENT THAT YOU FIND YOURSELF CORNERED BY A MEMBER OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN, PICK YOUR NOSE.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#40. The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.
Clive Barker
#41. Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud.
Dustin Yellin
#42. [Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention of the Haber-Bosch process.
Michael Pollan
#43. He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company
Michael Connelly
#44. Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left.
Michael Connelly
#45. Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#46. No matter how much they tried to dress her up with neon and family entertainment she [Las Vegas] was still a whore.
Michael Connelly
#47. Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.
Noam Chomsky
#48. The coyote howled once more. Bosch thought he could hear a dog answering somewhere in the distance. "Are you like him?" she asked. "Who?" "Timido. Alone out there in the dark world." "Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes." "Yes,
Michael Connelly
#49. Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals
TWELVE PLUS ONE,
And even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN,
You will find my DICTIONARY
is quite INDICATORY.
If you want to read my story, just look ...
THEN UNREAD.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#50. Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#51. *Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those really the same things? Think carefully before you insult this book.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#52. When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn about.
Now that I'm older - I won't say how old - I hate graveyards. The only life - or rather death - I see in the tombstones is my own.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#53. This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#55. Q: Why do you like chocolate so much?
A: The answer, clearly, is because I've tasted chocolate.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#56. The world was full of people who could not get over things. There was no closure and there was no peace. The truth did not set you free. But you could get through things. That's what Bosch would tell him. You could head toward the light and climb and dig and fight your way out of the hole.
Michael Connelly
#57. Non ... Gratum ... Anum ... Ro - ' I can't make that out." "Rodentum," Bosch said. Sakai looked at him. "Dog Latin," Bosch told him. "Not worth a rat's ass. He was a tunnel rat. Vietnam.
Michael Connelly
#59. You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.
Roselyne Bosch
#62. It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#63. Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.
Roselyne Bosch
#65. A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.
Ndamukong Suh
#67. Don't obey if your heart tells you the order is wrong.
Roselyne Bosch
#68. Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If you're sleepy, go to bed and save the next chapter for tomorrow. For the magician's story, you must have all your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#70. the initial ID is George Thomas Irving. Age forty-six of eight - " "Irving as in Irvin Irving? As in Councilman Irvin Irving?" "Scourge of the LAPD in general and one Detective Harry Bosch in particular.
Michael Connelly
#71. You are under arrest for murder, attempted murder and general conspiracy to be an asshole. - Harry Bosch
Michael Connelly
#72. I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie.
Gio Gonzalez
#74. The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
Carolina Herrera
#75. What is the point in having a mind unless you can change it?
Anonymous Bosch
#76. Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#77. Everybody has a need for their past, Bosch thought. Sometimes it pulls harder on you than the future.
Michael Connelly
#78. It would be erroneous to argue that the Reformation broke with the medieval Catholic paradigm in every respect. Some elements of Protestantism were in fact a continuation, even if in a new form, of what typified the Catholic model also.
David J. Bosch
#79. Reasonable Doubt for a Reasonable Fee. Call the Lincoln Lawyer. Bosch
Michael Connelly
#80. My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.
Roselyne Bosch
#81. There was more silence and Bosch pictured his partner on the other end of the line in a $900 suit and a bankrupt frown.
Michael Connelly
#82. Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully
Michael Connelly
#83. The past is the past. The future can be anything.
Rae Ann Bosch
#84. This country is not pro-American. It is United States property.
Juan Bosch
#85. Sometimes when we are at our lowest points, we make the greatest discoveries.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#86. Tragically, from the Orthodox point of view, we only too often convert people not to this one church, the body of Christ, but to our own denomination, at the same time imparting to them the "poison of division" (Nissiotis 1968:198).
David J. Bosch
#87. Only the willing to suffer can conquer suffering.
David Bosch
#88. If I do find out the Secret,I won't be able to tell it to you-you know that right?And that doesn't mean I don't trust you.It's just because I can't.Sometimes even best friends have to keep secrets from each other.
-Cass
Pseudonymous Bosch
#89. Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But it's easier to ignore them if you're saying silly things yourself.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#90. It had been Bosch's experience that when you looked back at a life, you used a magnifying glass. Everything was bigger, amplified.
Michael Connelly
#91. One's destruction is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things. (Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch)
Henry Miller
#93. Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.
Roselyne Bosch
#94. I ate him," said the homunculus, biting into his sausage.
The kids couldn't hide their looks of horror.
He smiled, sausage juice running down his chin. "Oh, don't worry - I cooked him first. I'm not a barbarian.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#95. Whether it's chocolate or socks, the rule is the same; the darker the better.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#96. This new condition, this unwilled silence, had fallen over him ten days ago. The day Cass had gone into the hospital. The day she had fallen into a coma.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#97. Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.
Catherine Hardwicke
#98. Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#99. Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.
Pseudonymous Bosch