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Michael Connelly Quotes

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. I was not interested in reading 'The Glass Key' or 'The Maltese Falcon' - stuff that was 40 or 50 years old.

Michael Connelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Reading Key Glass Crime Old Fiction

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

Steve Coogan

You Something Chase Too Desperately

Making small talk about what someone is wearing is just another form of unsolicited feedback.

Sophia Amoruso

Small Someone Feedback Talk Just

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

Tracy Chapman

Me Sister Doing Early She First

Not a lot of movies have their own feel.

Robert Ben Garant

Feel Movies Own Lot

The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.

Janna Levin

Earth Edge Infinite Connected Either

I like to eat.

Chris Messina

Eat Like

Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.

Bob Nelson

Work Yourself Seriously Take Your

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

Ashton Kutcher

Good Potential You Become See Fail

'Grateful' is the word that comes to my mind when thinking of the Denver Broncos.

Peyton Manning

Grateful Mind Thinking Denver Word

The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!

Pearl White

Man People Blind You Look Down

I would hope that, for me, regardless of what happens in my career in the future, I always want to maintain a level of humility. I think it's so important to not lose yourself and to just understand that you're a conduit.

Paul Wesley

Future Hope Yourself Humility Me

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

Ken Livingstone

Politics America Achieve Now Economy