Top 100 Quotes About Connelly
#1. Walls within walls, Bosch thought. He wondered what the owners did with all of their space besides fearfully guard it.
Michael Connelly
#3. 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. As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
Michael Connelly
#6. Are you like him?" she asked. "Who?" "Timido. Alone out there in the dark world." "Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes.
Michael Connelly
#7. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. Lobby door was locked, and when I buzzed apartment 12C, it was
Michael Connelly
#14. Brasher was alone with Stokes his calling might distract her and
Michael Connelly
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.
Jennifer Connelly
#22. She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top ...
Michael Connelly
#24. 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
#26. 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
#27. Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
Michael Connelly
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.
Michael Connelly
#31. Good NCOs are not just born-they are groomed and grown through a lot of hard work and strong leadership by senior NCOs.
William A. Connelly
#33. We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.
Michael Connelly
#34. 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
#35. You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."
("The Castle")
Michael Connelly
#36. 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
#37. You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.
Jennifer Connelly
#38. Parents see their children not only as they are but as they hope they will be in the future. Happy, fulfilled, not afraid.
Michael Connelly
#39. 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
#41. 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
#43. 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
#44. I saw a sneak preview of Jack Reacher and give two thumbs up to Tom Cruise. He did a great job with the role.
Michael Connelly
#45. 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
#47. I put my hand down below the table to check my zipper. You have to stand before a jury only once with your fly open and it will never happen again
Michael Connelly
#48. Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.
Michael Connelly
#49. What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
Michael Connelly
#50. Closers. So let's close this one out. Bosch and Rider stood
Michael Connelly
#51. 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
#52. 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
#54. When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.
Michael Connelly
#55. I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
Michael Connelly
#56. I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.
Jennifer Connelly
#57. I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. I didn't want to tell people what to do.
Michael Connelly
#58. If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.
James Pearse Connelly
#59. I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history like Vidal or Ellroy, or have an explosively inventive mind like Bulgakov, would be an incredible thing. I don't have that. I only have what I have.
Henry Rollins
#60. Executive assistant. "Mrs. Albrecht, how are you today?" "Very well. I just got here and thought maybe I had missed you." "Nope. I just got here too." "Come in, please." The house had a two-story entry area
Michael Connelly
#66. No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.
Michael Connelly
#67. 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
#69. There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.
Michael Connelly
#70. Jeb Bush is the new John Connelly.
Chuck Todd
#71. If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real.
James Pearse Connelly
#72. Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.
Michael Connelly
#73. Getting a not-guilty verdict was a long shot. Even when you knew in your gut that you were sitting next to an innocent man at the defense table, you also knew that the NGs came grudgingly from a system designed only to deal with the guilty.
Michael Connelly
#74. But too much going with the flow is heading us into the sewer ...
Michael Connelly
#75. Sex murders were usually the work of psychopaths and with that psychology was an innate ability to lie, to act, to feign surprise and horror when it was needed. Psychopaths were great liars.
Michael Connelly
#76. You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!
Jennifer Connelly
#77. 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
#79. Why is life a constant disappointment?'
'Because we read fiction,' Mia said, and Shelley nodded, knowing it was true.
Victoria Connelly
#80. He had lived alone most of his life. He was used to places that were empty. He knew the real shelter of a home was inside yourself.
Michael Connelly
#82. I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to.
Michael Connelly
#83. Sarah often thought it funny how she would think of the characters as if they were real people who had really lived, occupying this very world with the same strength of mind and passion as their creator.
Victoria Connelly
#84. I was simply in love with my daughter and how she viewed her world. The literal way in which she took it all in and took it on. I knew it wouldn't last long and so I treasured every moment I saw and heard of it.
Michael Connelly
#85. I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done.
James Pearse Connelly
#86. You see, the past is what you make of it. You can use it to hurt yourself or others or you can use it to make yourself strong.
Michael Connelly
#87. 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
#88. We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.
Jennifer Connelly
#92. The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.
Michael Connelly
#93. It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.
Jennifer Connelly
#94. I'm being totally honest, but I really do get chills every time I see something that I designed, painted on the biggest stage in Universal, standing proud there among all the other stages. I think, "That is so amazing that I did this."
James Pearse Connelly
#95. Bremmer stared uneasily and Bosch dismissed him with his hand. The reporter closed the door and went to his own car.
Michael Connelly
#96. Getting the quote right isn't what matters. It's remembering what it means.
Michael Connelly
#97. 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
#98. I fully acknowledge that it is easier to knock something down than to build it in the first place. But
Michael Connelly
#99. Edgar was silent as it registered. The background sound of television went quiet and he then spoke in the weak voice of a child asking
Michael Connelly
#100. Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?
Michael Connelly
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