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Michael Connelly Quotes

My father was a builder. During my high school years, I worked for him. One summer, I was working with a guy who had just come back from Vietnam and had been a tunnel rat. He wouldn't talk about the experience, but it sounded really scary to me.

Michael Connelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 21, 1956

Topics

Father Experience School Me Back

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John Hancock

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John Eldredge

Age Men True Never Whatever Most

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Andrei Platonov

Soul World Grow Will Ugliness Our

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Andre Gide

Work Good Rest Go Beyond Greatest

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

Sting

Perspective I Am Lost Never Pretty

The fact is the American people want men and women to stand up and represent them and to put their interests ahead of the party interests.

Matt Bevin

Women Men People Stand Up Stand Up

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Marty Allen

Path Money Man Horse Down Him

A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.

Mireille Enos

People Feel New Kind Become Plot

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Drew Brees

Life I Am Me World Road My Life

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

Chris Rock

First Curse Because He Comedian

Sometimes I wake at 2 A.M. worrying that my great-granddaughter will have to march through her distant, broiling future gathering all the plastic I ever disposed of.

Anthony Doerr

Future Sometimes Will Gathering Her

Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Quiet More Diplomacy Far Effective