Michael Connelly Quotes
It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.Michael Connelly
Quotes to Explore
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
Gabourey Sidibe -
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
Fay Wray -
I hate competition.
Marat Safin -
I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
Ted Naifeh -
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
Irene Rosenfeld -
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
Zoe Saldana -
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
Natalie Maines -
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
Pat Metheny -
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
E. W. Howe -
Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
Haley Joel Osment
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
Ian Botham -
Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
Irvine Welsh -
Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
Nazanin Boniadi -
Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.
Adam Mansbach -
My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
Wade Boggs -
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
Carlo Ratti
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I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.
Jim Yong Kim -
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.
Anne Carson -
Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
W. Daniel Hillis -
More and more, people probably associate me in this world of comedy and these confident, brassy, big ladies, which I love, but my insides and who I feel like internally and the kind of work that I hope to continue doing feels very different from that.
Ari Graynor -
It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
Michael Connelly