Top 100 Connelly's Quotes
#1. I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.
Jo Nesbo
#2. Michael Connelly's Series Order Diana Gabaldon's Series Order Patricia Cornwell's Series Order Fern Michael's Series Order Robert Ludlum's Series Order Harlan Coben's Series Order Terry Pratchett's Series Order J.A. Jance's Series Order Tom Clancy's
A.J. Stone
#3. I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
Michael Connelly
#4. need a driver for the next few days, maybe more. You want to do it, the job's yours. I'm paying ten bucks an hour plus any meals. You'd have to bring a book or something because there will be a lot of sitting around waiting for me.
Michael Connelly
#5. Aronson was getting at the fine line between seeking the truth and seeking a verdict in your client's favor. They weren't always the same thing.
Michael Connelly
#6. Because it's a hot door and we have to be careful. You never open a door on a burning room.
Michael Connelly
#7. Oxnard was the biggest city in Ventura County. Its unattractive name was that of a sugar beet farmer who built a processing plant in the settlement in the late nineteenth century. The city totally surrounded Port Hueneme, where there was a small U.S. Navy base.
Michael Connelly
#9. I have a thing about honesty; I think it's crucial to a relationship. Otherwise, one person holds all the power. It's healthy to be straightforward, and it turns out you can wind up weathering a lot. Knowing that everything is on the table - what you see is what you get - lends a sense of safety.
Jennifer Connelly
#10. So, what it's like, Terry? Being a father."
...
"It's like having a gun to your head all the time. Because I know if anything happens to her, anything, then my life is over.
Michael Connelly
#11. I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing.
Jennifer Connelly
#12. I wonder what it is about a certain novel that ticks the boxes for a reader. I mean, for me, a story can have the most fascinating plot in the world, but if the narrator's voice is dull, then the plot counts for nothing. For me, authorial charm is everything.
Victoria Connelly
#13. 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
#15. 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
#16. That's the only problem with novels,' Mia said. 'They give readers such high hopes that the real world can often be a bit of a letdown.
Victoria Connelly
#17. It's a great day when you meet a new writer, isn't it? It's like an introduction to a best friend you didn't know existed just hours before.
Victoria Connelly
#18. All these years in the straight life and she still had a whore's pride.
Michael Connelly
#19. Jesus Christ . . ." And I never say "Jesus Christ."
"No, Cadence. My name is Mark Connelly. And I'm about to give you the most explosive orgasm of your life.
S. Walden
#20. I'll not be a hypocrite and dispute you over that. It's the custom and culture that up brings us to what's right and what's wrong. It's just easier to follow than to dispute.
Max Connelly
#21. I think loss isolates a person. Everybody is far too nervous to ask you how you feel, in case you have a breakdown in front of them. It's much easier not to say anything and hope the pain goes away quickly and quietly.
Victoria Connelly
#23. And what's with all the names on the new list? I've got kids I'd like to spend time with tonight."
"Give it to Lankford. He has the time. I think he ate his kids.
Michael Connelly
#24. You know what they call a guy who switches sides in homicide? They call him a Jane Fonda, as in hanging with the North Vietnamese. You get it? It's crossing to the dark side.
Michael Connelly
#25. If you look around anywhere, layers are an important part of, not just the story and the concept, but the world you're in. If you just turn around and look at your office door, there's a door, and there's something behind it.
James Pearse Connelly
#26. It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
Michael Connelly
#27. Artists are supposed to stay hungry." "That's bullshit. That's a myth invented to keep the artist down because art is powerful. You give an artist both money and power and they're dangerous.
Michael Connelly
#28. Growing up, being watched from the outside ... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.
Jennifer Connelly
#29. I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
Michael Connelly
#30. I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.
Michael Connelly
#31. I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.
James Pearse Connelly
#34. My approach is to 100 percent get the concept and the visual right. Get the client to love the space. Once they love the space, everything's possible.
James Pearse Connelly
#35. own trouble he was paying for. I handled his mother's foreclosure defense and got her
Michael Connelly
#36. There is plenty of justice on television, but not so much in the real world. Maybe that's why so many of us like television so much.
Charlaine Harris
#37. 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
#38. I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.
Jennifer Connelly
#39. There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.
Michael Connelly
#41. Every person has to make their own decisions in life. It's virtually impossible to learn from somebody else's mistakes; there are too many variables.
Victoria Connelly
#42. I really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real
Michael Connelly
#43. A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.
Michael Connelly
#44. You can become unhinged and cut loose from the world. You can believe you are a permanent outsider. But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself. I have learned this late in life but not too late. It's never too late.
Michael Connelly
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Michael Connelly
#46. You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.
Michael Connelly
#47. It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.
Jennifer Connelly
#48. It's lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We'd all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.
Michael Connelly
#49. In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style. Out here, it's casual, fresh, new, and almost humble.
James Pearse Connelly
#50. That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.
Jennifer Connelly
#51. It's so hard to keep perspective and keep things in context, and it's so easy to get distracted. This film [Shelter] reminded me how important it is to remain aware, and to keep seeing the things that are happening around the world.
Jennifer Connelly
#52. Was. "Uh, hi, Walter. This is my daughter, Hayley, and this is her mom, Maggie McPherson." "Hi," Hayley said shyly. Maggie nodded and looked uncomfortable. Walter made the mistake of thrusting his hand out to Maggie. If she could have
Michael Connelly
#53. Hold on to the ones you love,' Grandpa Joe told him now. 'Hold on to them tightly and tell them that you love them at every opportunity because you just don't know when you'll be parted from them.
Victoria Connelly
#55. She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top ...
Michael Connelly
#56. I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.
Jennifer Connelly
#57. Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.
Jennifer Connelly
#58. If you get into a game of talking to the media, you keep the story alive. Information is oxygen. Without it they die.
Michael Connelly
#59. Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It's subliminal. Most of what goes on in a police interrogation has nothing to do with what is said.
Michael Connelly
#60. The good ones all had that hollow space inside. The empty place where the fire always burns. For something. Call it justice. Call it the need to know. Call it the need to believe that those who are evil will not remain hidden in darkness forever.
Michael Connelly
#61. I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.
James Pearse Connelly
#62. Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him.
Jennifer Connelly
#63. Brasher was alone with Stokes his calling might distract her and
Michael Connelly
#64. Lobby door was locked, and when I buzzed apartment 12C, it was
Michael Connelly
#67. There were two types of people in the world, those who hurt you and those who changed you.
Z knew without a doubt that Connelly was going to be both.
Elizabeth Varlet
#68. I was not the first choice for Veronica in Heathers. I auditioned and they were like, "Oh, thanks." And I went to the Beverly Center to Macy's and had them do a makeover on me. I went back because I kind of knew that they thought I wasn't pretty enough. They were trying to get Jennifer Connelly.
Winona Ryder
#70. Guilt," he said. "You have to get by it. Let the ghosts go or they'll take you under and you'll never be the lawyer you are supposed to be. You will never see the big picture.
Michael Connelly
#71. Are you like him?" she asked. "Who?" "Timido. Alone out there in the dark world." "Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes.
Michael Connelly
#72. As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
Michael Connelly
#74. 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
#76. Walls within walls, Bosch thought. He wondered what the owners did with all of their space besides fearfully guard it.
Michael Connelly
#77. Closers. So let's close this one out. Bosch and Rider stood
Michael Connelly
#78. Writing does for me what you got in that glass does for you. If I can write about it, I can understand it. And I can put it in the ground. That's all I want to do.
Michael Connelly
#79. Play fair, Haller." "It's not a fair game. Did she tell you
Michael Connelly
#80. fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell
Michael Connelly
#81. 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
#82. Getting the quote right isn't what matters. It's remembering what it means.
Michael Connelly
#84. That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
Michael Connelly
#85. Once we have a nice, conceptual sketch and rendering and design approved, then it's really about pinpointing what's functional and what's not, because functional equals expensive.
James Pearse Connelly
#86. If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.
James Pearse Connelly
#87. I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all have crazy habits and do different things.
James Pearse Connelly
#88. 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
#89. I'm going to have to go out there. She had a mother and a brother. See who's still around and can look at this thing."
"Harry, you sure you
"
"You think I have a choice?
Michael Connelly
#90. What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
Michael Connelly
#91. When you take hope away it leaves a void. Some people fill that up with anger and with violence. To simply blame it on the media is wrong. It's much deeper than that.
Michael Connelly
#92. Abolishing centuries old traditions of the prosperous South, seemed to motivate their envious souls into annihilating what looked to the world, God's Heaven on Earth.
Max Connelly
#94. Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, catch a killer by the toe. If his lawyer's Haller, let him go. Eenie, meenie, minie, moe. Hey bro.
Michael Connelly
#95. It's all a cesspool, man. Doesn't matter if you're on the bottom or the top. You're still swimming in shit.
Michael Connelly
#96. I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.
Jennifer Connelly
#97. I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.
Michael Connelly
#98. I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.
Michael Connelly
#99. Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
Michael Connelly
#100. One of the crazies moved into the cone of light beneath a streetlight. It was a black man, high-stepping and making jerking movements with his arms. He made a crisp turn and began moving back into the darkness. He was a trombone player in a matching band in a world somewhere else.
Michael Connelly
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