Michael Connelly Quotes

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.

To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.

there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.

The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!