Michael Connelly Quotes

I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it - something genetic there. Maybe just a need to tell stories.

Michael Connelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThinkTraditionStorytellingNeed

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

Joey Fatone

GoodFoodYouOrchestraFlavors

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

John Cleese

FunBadPersonTasteBeenIdea

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice. I mean, it's a pretty evenhanded loathing among a certain amount of the critical population, which used to be about 80 percent. So now I've gotten to the point where I just don't worry about it that much. It used to be very upsetting, now it's only mildly upsetting.

Michael Ian Black

HatePeopleMeThinkWorryNice

I'm always sticking up for other people.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

PeopleAlwaysUpOtherSticking

I can't watch 'Titanic' without breaking down within the first 10 minutes. You know, when it got re-released in 3D, I went to see it again. My mom came to pick me up from the cinema, and I was just bawling my eyes out.

Sophie Turner

EyesMeMomYouCinemaDown

My approach to selecting a film is very simple - it should touch my heart.

Sridevi

HeartSimpleTouchFilmApproach

In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.

Simon Beaufoy

PeopleLookWantInspirationReal

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God... Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

Robert Baden-Powell

GodRespectNeighborDevelopment

My go-to winter recipe is beef and butternut squash stew, cooked in the slow oven all day.

Jojo Moyes

WinterDaySlowRecipeBeefSquash

When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'

Diana Nyad

WorkDreamsLiveWalkChildPeople

Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.

Chris Milk

EmpathyPeopleFeelOwnUsFilm

How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.

Clyde Tombaugh

NatureFlowerPowerGreatColors

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