John Connolly Quotations

The performance against Gloucester was extremely encouraging, and we are looking forward to getting the Heineken Cup under way.

We started the season slowly, but since then we've won four on the bounce and played pretty well during that time,

There are some concerns there, which will probably see us including quite a number of props in our training squad so that we can get a handle on it. Getting the front row right is expected to be an evolving process.

With the injuries that we have in the back three at the moment it was important that we brought in a player of quality and experience and Salesi Finau fits that bill exactly. He has performed consistently well for Llanelli over the past seven seasons and he is looking forward to getting out there on Saturday.

There is no doubt that our forward effort was not what we would have liked it to have been and they know that they have to be much better on Saturday. However, the guys have worked extremely hard during the week, and are determined to make amends this weekend.

We're here to speak for the working-class actor, the people just like you, who have family responsibilities, put the kids through school, pay their mortgages and their car payments on time,

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

Like everyone else, he has things to prove to make the side, but I think he is one of Australia's great players and at the moment we only have two or three certain selections in the team.

Leicester scored a couple of tries against the run of play and that turned the match. They are a very good side and like us, will be determined to show their true colours on Saturday. It will be a tough contest, that is for sure.

Olly's situation is one classic case of where the club and country situation here can work against a player and his club coach,

One hundred and eighteen Tests and I think he is one of Australia's great players -- he will be one of the first people I meet with over the next day or so.

I am focused on the positives - Super 14 provides the opportunity to look at more players than we have in the past with greater competition for places.

I believe that this is a good game for us to be playing,

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.

I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.

If that had occurred in the city of Manchester, or in the city of Normandy when I was chief, it would have been a bad chase.

He has a strong vision for how we want to play the game.

He has performed consistently well for Llanelli over the past seven seasons and he is looking forward to getting out there on Saturday.

We lost our first two games last year and finished fourth - it's best not to look at the bottom of the table.

He was pretty shaken up about this whole entire thing,

Jones will have walked away knowing that unless he can get momentum in the forwards, Australia, with the best backs in world rugby, will always struggle.

It is a big challenge for us, there is no doubt about that,

I think we have a lot of areas we need to improve in.

Jeremy Paul has played quite well, but he has been injured a lot this year. He'll be out for another two or three weeks ... it's a very open area at the moment. There's no doubt about that.

Our fans are very loyal. They are very vocal about what they like, and what they don't like. They don't like us over-analyzing our music. They like us going a little bit more over the top, going with our gut instincts.

Stephen is a world class player and has made a fantastic contribution to Australian rugby. He will play an important role leading up to, and during the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

: ''My name is John Connolly and if you give me one of your four, I promise to stop calling and knocking on your door.

I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published.

I think he'll go very well in rugby, I think he'll be sensational in rugby and he'll have a great future.

It is definitely the next chapter. We sat down and took stock of where we were. We looked at every facet of the business, from management, all the way through business managers, booking agents and, ultimately, record company. We had to replace a guitar player, too. It was a string of everything being the next of whatever we were dealing with.

We'll definitely look to have a public training session of some description and while it's too early to say where we'll be training, this is certainly something the people of Canberra and surrounding region can look forward to.

We'll definitely look to have a public training session of some description and, while it's too early to say where we'll be training, this is certainly something the people of Canberra and surrounding region can look forward to.

We do need to think about the game differently and I think the coaching structure we are looking at is innovative. Importantly, with the right people in place it will address the key problems.

We have won three matches on the bounce, whilst Gloucester are undefeated this season and are the form side in England at the moment. Add the England aspect with players fighting for their places, and the Mike Tindall factor and the scene is set for what promises to be a very good game.

We got to push the melodic side of it just as far, if not farther, then we've ever pushed it before. For the first time, we saw that light at the end of the tunnel, and it was pretty bright. I can honestly say that this is the best cross section of music that we have ever put on a record.

We had a number of half-chances and we put ourselves in a position to do things, but the forwards were very disappointing,

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

When you get away from selecting your best players, that's when you have problems. Australia demands you pick your best in a Test team. It's different at a lower level, then sometimes other factors come into it, but a Test team should be your best available.

Financially, we were stuck. We got to the point where you go on the road and are lucky to even break even. What is really the point?

We were disappointed with our performance against Bristol in terms of the handling errors and poor execution,

We all want to be in the same position as New Zealand, whose dilemma for the World Cup will be which players should be left out of their squad.

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.

As I get older I tend to rail against the world more and more.

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

It would be a consideration. But it is a developmental tour.

Pursuits are probably one of the biggest problems for agencies.

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.

And there is no doubt our forward effort was not what we would have liked it to have been, and they know they have to be much better on Saturday.

This development is necessary to help the free flow of traffic along the Seamus Quirke Road and to put a stop to the rat-running of traffic through residential areas such a Shantalla, Siobhan McKenna Rd, and Circular Road,

They are the only squad capable of putting out two sides that can take on anyone, but they have been in this position before in the run-up to World Cups. It is next year which matters, not now.

It's 13 weeks until the first Wallaby team of the year is picked and a lot will come into consideration.

It is vital that we give guys like (Pieter) Dixon and (James) Hudson games as we will need them when the autumn internationals start.

It will be how each individual club perceives it. Maybe clubs who are in the Heineken Cup will rest players,

They are world-class locks, and I wouldn't want to swap those two for anyone else,

The Canberra winter should provide the perfect conditions to prepare for the Eden Park Test. Already this year we've looked at spending more time in Test match cities and preparing in the conditions we can expect on match days.

I have no doubt that he is ready for England . Some of the rugby out there today was of Test match intensity.

I really love what you do. I look forward to your next book.

If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.

He's the right age, he's 24, he's arguably the best rugby league centre in the world, and I think he'd be a fair acquisition to our game if everything lines up.

George is definitely a talented player and someone who has so much to offer Australian Rugby now, and in the future.

I don't mind a challenge and they don't come bigger than winning a World Cup.

I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he is beyond their understanding and abandon themselves to his will. What kind of god is that?

I don't think," he said, "that a vicar is supposed to beat a bishop to death, or even back to death." Mr. Berkeley looked down upon the remains of Bishop Bernard. "If anyone asks, we'll say he fell over," he said. "Lots of times.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light...

I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.

David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them...

I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I am sorry that I have kept you with me for so long, trapped in my heart, bound in sorrow and remorse. I forgive you too. I forgive you for leaving me, and I forgive you for returning. I forgive you your anger, and your grief. Let this be an end to it.

You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself.

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

a technician who uses the term “glitch” is like a Doctor who tells you you’re suffering from a “thingy,” except the doctor won’t tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

The US dollar is our currency but your problem.

If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

I believe in those whom I love and trust.

. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.

And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always his father's child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart.

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?

He had never really speculated about this before, since demons came in all shapes and sizes. Indeed, some of them came in more than one shape or size all by themselves, such as O'Dear, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Overweight, and his twin, O'Really, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Slim When They're Not.

Each man dreams his own heaven.

It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

You mean they killed her?" asked David. They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge. That's what 'ran away and was never seen again' means in these parts. It means 'eaten.'" Um and what about 'happily ever after'?" asked David, a little uncertainly. "What does that mean?" Eaten quickly," said Brother Number One.

The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for the greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give. There is no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope.

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books had no real existence in our world. Like seeds in the beak of a bird waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being. they lie dormant hoping for the chance to emerge.They want us to give them life.

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.