Any opportunity has the potential to be extraordinary.
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY To live as Father time, is to wait on no man, and to judge all men equal; to proclaim the truth, is ...
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY When you have nothing, a little goes a long way. When you have a lot, a little seems like nothing.
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY Make peace with the worst possible outcome and fight for the best.
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY When the waters surround me, God grants me the power to part the sea.
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY One day is not enough. Success means many days rough.
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY My recurring dream is becoming my recurring reality. In this dream I meet a girl, fall in love and t...
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY Love & Pain - Pain is only one teardrop away. The problem of waiting until the person you love is go...
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY Humility in the presence of adversity - The humble man stumbles with grace, and while those around h...
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY The Sweet Song of Life - Sing and be happy, enjoy today even if you have to change your song tomorro...
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY Don't give up hope, in the pit; even in the deepest hole, you may strike gold.
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY In the absence of light, darkness prevails; but in darkness a seed seeks light. Thus, darkness is a ...
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY Ignorance likes company and loves to show off its colours.
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY If the moon and the earth didn't pull away from and draw back too each other, in a cosmic tango, we ...
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY Peace is what I practice, peace is what I preach, but if they will not embrace peace, then they will...
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
BILLY CONNOLLY Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
BILLY CONNOLLY There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
BILLY CONNOLLY I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
BILLY CONNOLLY Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perf...
CHARLES CONNOLLY The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
CYRIL CONNOLLY My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. H...
KEVIN CONNOLLY When did you get so clever?"
"When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.
JOHN CONNOLLY Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people...
JOHN CONNOLLY Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mothe...
JOHN CONNOLLY There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to l...
JOHN CONNOLLY In the sex-war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desir...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
CYRIL CONNOLLY The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
CYRIL CONNOLLY The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
CYRIL CONNOLLY In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school....
CYRIL CONNOLLY A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer m...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a ma...
CYRIL CONNOLLY When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment....
CYRIL CONNOLLY Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read onc...
CYRIL CONNOLLY I shall christen this style the Mandarin, since it is beloved by literary pundits. It is the style ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
CYRIL CONNOLLY The hunt for young authors who, while maintaining a prestige value (with a r
CYRIL CONNOLLY As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear o...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literat...
JAMES CONNOLLY No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and d...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their materia...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. Y...
MAUREEN CONNOLLY When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
CYRIL CONNOLLY The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unabl...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Perma...
CYRIL CONNOLLY I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight t...
CYRIL CONNOLLY There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
CYRIL CONNOLLY There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution o...
CYRIL CONNOLLY No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
CYRIL CONNOLLY We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bo...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victi...
JAMES CONNOLLY The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The trage...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
CYRIL CONNOLLY A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.
CYRIL CONNOLLY There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old f...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
CYRIL CONNOLLY A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-han...
CYRIL CONNOLLY It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but wha...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perf...
CHARLES CONNOLLY Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Ne...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likel...
CYRIL CONNOLLY If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is alw...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, wher...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury...
CYRIL CONNOLLY When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life; it is because we t...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the da...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be graspe...
CYRIL CONNOLLY All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
CYRIL CONNOLLY In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
CYRIL CONNOLLY A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point o...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not pe...
CHARLES CONNOLLY There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
CYRIL CONNOLLY The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
CYRIL CONNOLLY The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
CYRIL CONNOLLY We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becom...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
CYRIL CONNOLLY I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
BILLY CONNOLLY 'Entourage' is a very, very, very unique acting experience. I could go in to win 1000 Academ...
KEVIN CONNOLLY Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of c...
BILLY CONNOLLY Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing u...
KEVIN CONNOLLY All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
CYRIL CONNOLLY It’s odd, but people are capable of forgetting quite extraordinary occurrences very quickly if it ...
JOHN CONNOLLY Z útrob Asketické jeskyně v nitru Nezajímavé hory, která se tyčí v části pekla nazývané ...
JOHN CONNOLLY When did you get so clever?” “When I realized that I wasn’t as clever as I thought,
JOHN CONNOLLY Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...
JOHN CONNOLLY he would envy each and every living thing its freedom, even if it was only the freedom to die.
JOHN CONNOLLY No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becom...
JOHN CONNOLLY We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere."
"Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in He...
JOHN CONNOLLY Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.
JOHN CONNOLLY Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are ...
JOHN CONNOLLY After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope...
JOHN CONNOLLY You've just inherited rudeness. We've had to work at it.
JOHN CONNOLLY Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
JOHN CONNOLLY But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are ...
JOHN CONNOLLY It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becom...
JOHN CONNOLLY If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and ...
JOHN CONNOLLY A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer
JOHN CONNOLLY Most criminals were dumb, and he took the view that the whole science of criminology was essentially...
JOHN CONNOLLY The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
JAMES CONNOLLY I wanted somebody who would provide independence and a professional perspective to this organization...
ANGELA CONNOLLY By law, we have to keep it at $68 million, and I for one won't go over the $68 million.
ANGELA CONNOLLY We asked him to shoot us a number that it would take to stay in Polk County. This is the number we c...
ANGELA CONNOLLY He has to come in at target. He's got to figure out how to do that.
ANGELA CONNOLLY . . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven.

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JOHN CONNOLLY For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that wil...
JOHN CONNOLLY (To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium...
JOHN CONNOLLY where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them.
JOHN CONNOLLY No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a di...
JOHN CONNOLLY It’s a natural consequence of the capacity of a bookstore or library to contain entire worlds, who...
JOHN CONNOLLY The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It...
JOHN CONNOLLY I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but yo...
BILLY CONNOLLY There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clea...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
BILLY CONNOLLY Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and d...
CYRIL CONNOLLY A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
CYRIL CONNOLLY No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY I'm famous for my bottom dances, but you'll only see my bum and willy if you raise a million pounds ...
BILLY CONNOLLY I think that you'll find that Billy Connolly is British.
BILLY CONNOLLY I'm very big in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and America. It's nice. I have a lovely life...
BILLY CONNOLLY There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointe...
BILLY CONNOLLY Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.
BILLY CONNOLLY The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterw...
BILLY CONNOLLY It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them ...
BILLY CONNOLLY “So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a ...
BILLY CONNOLLY Roses are red,Violets are blue,I'm a schizophrenic,and so am I.
BILLY CONNOLLY I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it m...
BILLY CONNOLLY Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
BILLY CONNOLLY If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit th...
JAMES CONNOLLY I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that s...
BILLY CONNOLLY There are people who didn't like 'The Departed,' you know?
KEVIN CONNOLLY As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of l...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
CYRIL CONNOLLY “So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?”
BILLY CONNOLLY A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without findi...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not...
CYRIL CONNOLLY No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the be...
CYRIL CONNOLLY We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
CYRIL CONNOLLY What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
CYRIL CONNOLLY Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk.
CYRIL CONNOLLY I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I starte...
KEVIN CONNOLLY Papa has not misled any client, manipulated any record, or covered up anything.
MICHAEL CONNOLLY 'Entourage' is almost required watching in L.A., and everyone seems to have story suggestion...
KEVIN CONNOLLY I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.
KEVIN CONNOLLY I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and y...
BILLY CONNOLLY What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a...
JOHN CONNOLLY Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
CYRIL CONNOLLY The Islanders and their owner, Garth Snow, were very generous with me and let me do some cool stuff ...
KEVIN CONNOLLY The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the sam...
BILLY CONNOLLY We've been on the other side of that last year against Mohawk. It's a kick in the tail.
CHRIS CONNOLLY He's just worked his tail off. He was everywhere tonight.
SEAN CONNOLLY A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrat...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develo...
CYRIL CONNOLLY I went from such a testosterone-driven show to the exact opposite, because 'Friends With Better ...
KEVIN CONNOLLY I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. . . . My family comes from the west coast, so whenev...
BILLY CONNOLLY Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one�...
JOHN CONNOLLY When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then a...
CYRIL CONNOLLY I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't b...
BILLY CONNOLLY My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
BILLY CONNOLLY The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, w...
BILLY CONNOLLY I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
BILLY CONNOLLY It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling t...
BILLY CONNOLLY I did host the Jim Rome show with Jerry Ferrara for three hours when he was on vacation. Three hours...
KEVIN CONNOLLY The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.”
"Don't vote. I...
BILLY CONNOLLY I feel terrible. I'd like to get out. I'm done with the army. I want to move on. My commitment was u...
JAMES CONNOLLY What we have now is a university town grafted onto a declining industrial city. The standard of livi...
JAMES CONNOLLY The other side of the coin is that we had a terrific win against Adelaide, and every player deserve ...
CHRIS CONNOLLY I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.
KEVIN CONNOLLY I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up wi...
BILLY CONNOLLY It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civ...
JAMES CONNOLLY I think he'll go very well in rugby, I think he'll be sensational in rugby and he'll have a great fu...
JOHN CONNOLLY If that had occurred in the city of Manchester, or in the city of Normandy when I was chief, it woul...
JOHN CONNOLLY