FastSaying

My father was the kind of person who never asked for anything for himself but was always ready to ask for whatever was necessary to help others.


Patrick Connolly

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't d...
JAMES MAXEY When the chief would ask for volunteers for anything, Roger was always one of the first to volunteer...
MIKE TURNER For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or g...
ANTHONY BEAL Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask f...
KATHARINE HEPBURN That was the idea for the shoot and they never asked for anything further.
JENNIFER BARRETTA The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER I started crying when the group [therapy] was over because the last thing we did upset me - we all h...
CAROL LEE I never knew a person who reacted so wholly and rapidly to a changed situation as Estraven. I was re...
URSULA K. LE GUIN If I had an ear 2 confide in
I would cry among my treasured friends
But who do u know that...
TUPAC SHAKUR Harry constantly repeated Dumbledore's final words to himself. "I will only truly have left this sch...
J.K. ROWLING Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always wo...
VICTOR OLADIPO She was caring, she was giving, she was supportive, she was tolerant … I never heard her turn anybo...
GARY PERNELL He was held there for a couple of months. Every day an officer would come onto the field with a loud...
EDMUNDO BOUDON The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.
JON KRAKAUER I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to ...
AMY TAN Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their f...
LARAINE DAY We never needed for anything, ... My father was a simple man. That's the way he was, and that's the ...
HAL LEBOVITZ Mother Teresa did not became famous by caring just about herself
MANUEL CORAZZARI As you help people become successful eventually you will realice that the person you are helping the...
MANUEL CORAZZARI My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD She was a wonderful and generous person who was always ready to gratefully give of her time.
MARK WEINSTEIN Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT My sister was a good and upstanding person who was always there for anyone in our family.
GREG LUTZ My dad was an amazing father. He was very loving and supportive. He was the best dad you could ever ...
KRISTIN HAWKINS A person who has a heart which is ready to sacrifice anything for the sake of Love,will never be alo...
THESULA GUYRUKA ILESINGHE I was never really concerned about playing time this season, it was whatever I could do for my time,...
FRANK RUSSELL He never talked about himself. He was always trying to do for his community.
JAMES WATERS I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm ready to do whatever is necessary for me to do.
CARLOS SANTANA Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat...
DONALD TRUMP My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable...
JOYCE MEYER Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often ...
ALEXANDER DOWNER He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ...
BEN HECHT A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, be...
ALEXIS BLEDEL My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could repl...
ANDREW TAYLOR STILL I was the patriarch, using whatever method necessary to get my own way. Not once did I think I was d...
MASARU SUZUKI Patrick was just a wonderful person. He was the guy who lit up the room.
BRIAN GRAHAM My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the...
GARRY HYNES Then he said the funny thing was the old man himself had left home when he was a kid, after a fight ...
ALICE MUNRO I am tied to my father's land and am happy to visit relatives in Egypt, but I feel Italian and w...
STEPHAN EL SHAARAWY He's one of the people that was well known and well regarded by everyone there, and the kind of pers...
GEORGE RIGGS Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Wellington has been there for me throughout the years, ... I've had my problems. He never told me wh...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growin...
HUGH JACKMAN He would do anything to help anyone. He was a person who cared.
CAROLYN SCOTT My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa...
WENDY LIEBMAN The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, sho...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI I'm the type of person who doesn't ask for help, I could be stranded right now & u would NEVER know ...
NICNICLOUISIANA My father was never anti-anything in our house.
ERROL FLYNN My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always ca...
HORTON FOOTE Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit i...
ARIEL PINK This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to igno...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask...
ALEXIS BLEDEL Mullah Omar was generally good to those who worked for him -- in my opinion, he was a good person. H...
MOHAMMED RAHIM He was their other father. That's just the kind of person he was.
LAURA TARTAMELLA There is no country in earth with all bad people or all good people, so you can't judge a country , ...
"BETA" METANI' MARASHI There is no country in earth with all bad people or all good people, so you can't judge a country or...
"BETA" METANI' MARASHI I don't care about what am I, I care about what you are...
BODDU SUBBARAO It's hard to care about people when you're always afraid you might lose them. But I think not caring...
AMBER ARGYLE You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the...
GEORGE MACDONALD I always felt that it was never the duty of a person to really stand up for their gender or their ra...
KUMAIL NANJIANI When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to w...
GLORIA GAITHER I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawne...
GERALDINE STUTZ When she got the first couple [fouls], I was ready. I come in looking for my opportunities, but I di...
ASJHA JONES Jesus made Himself available to everyone. Unlike former prophets and the religious men of His day, w...
MOTHER ANGELICA Your longing for an intimate relationship with another person is something you were created to feel....
DEBRA FILETA As a football player, you couldn't ask for anybody who worked any harder than he did. In the spring ...
BILLY TURNER I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever w...
FERNANDO PESSOA I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry F...
PETER FONDA That was kind of tough because my father (Raymond) taught in the schools here. She was always talkin...
CONRAD COLEMAN Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA My five-year-old daughter was asked by her teacher what her father does, and she replied, "Whatever ...
UNKNOWN She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect ch...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN It was emotional, that's for sure. I'm sure deep down he was probably smiling but he would never ask...
CRAIG NALL My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural...
NATHANIEL KAHN My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever...
DONNA MILLS He would have to trust God for that, for he was helpless to do anything about it himself. His grandf...
ROBIN LEE HATCHER I thought last year was a miraculous year for him. And he definitely earned my respect last year as ...
DAVE DUNCAN [They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anyt...
JOSEPH HELLER She's the type of person that when you asked for help would provide it in a very detailed wayshe was...
ALEXANDER SILBIGER But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did o...
BEAU WILLIMON He said, 'Joe, you're ready to manage. Go,' ... That meant a lot to me, because it was like a father...
JOE GIRARDI It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebr...
MANDY MOORE He helped people. Everybody loved him because he was a good person. He tried to help everybody. It w...
HERMAN PITTMAN You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG The golf was lousy, ... I couldn't ask for anything but maybe a little better score.
ARNOLD PALMER It was kind of both our ideas. The hotel was extremely willing to work with us. They were willing to...
JAMES LONG wo chhod dete hain jb hm tnha hote hain wo paas hote hain jb mere paas hazaro hopte hain.
SONYY TYAGI He was around here for a couple of weeks. Everything seemed normal. He just tended to himself. ... W...
BOB PETERS How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answ...
JOHN ABBOTT 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the an...
JOHN ABBOTT How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the ans...
JOHN ABBOTT 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the an...
JOHN ABBOTT

More Patrick Connolly

This demand made a voluntary settlement impossible because after three years of negotiations on this...
PATRICK 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.

...
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 I believe in those whom I love and trust.
JOHN CONNOLLY This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there wi...
JOHN CONNOLLY Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason th...
JOHN CONNOLLY Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.
JOHN CONNOLLY Most people either love or hate old libraries. To some, a room like this--dim, high-ceilinged, dusty...
SHEILA CONNOLLY I mean, he's a pharmacy technician and we won't turn our backs to prosecuting this case just because...
CHRIS CONNOLLY Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so
CYRIL CONNOLLY Believe me, I've taken a lot of heat for my mustache.
KEVIN CONNOLLY [Connolly said that the current plan is to start off with two lunar missions per year. That frequenc...
JOHN CONNOLLY Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
CYRIL CONNOLLY We'll definitely look to have a public training session of some description and while it's too early...
JOHN CONNOLLY There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover
CYRIL CONNOLLY It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause o...
CYRIL CONNOLLY I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight t...
CYRIL CONNOLLY