Sidney Sheldon Quotes

How long a honeymoon are you planning?" Mrs. Stanhope inquired. "About fifty years," Charles replied. And

Life is a cosmic grab-bag. At this moment, somewhere in the world, someone is losing a child, skiing down a mountain, having an orgasm, getting a haircut, lying on a bed of pain, singing on a stage, drowning, getting married, starving in a gutter. In the end, aren't we all that same person? An aeon is a thousand million years, and an aeon ago every atom in our bodies was a part of a star. Pay attention to me, God. We are all a part of your universe, and if we die, part of your universe dies with us.

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

Want them hand-delivered by our own messengers. Do you

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

Coleridge wrote, Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

The difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.

She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.

Nothing lasts forever.

Inspector Tinou sat silent. The Greek police department did not welcome interference from other countries in their affairs. Particularly Americans. They are always too-sou, so sure of themselves.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

Everything passes. Nothing is forever. Least of all love. Cameron

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

The line came from a legend about a hunter who was relating an experience he had on safari. "This huge lion was racing toward me, and all my gun bearers had fled. I had no gun, and there was nowhere to hide. Not a bush or a tree in sight. And the beast was charging straight at me, coming closer and closer." "How did you escape?" a listener asked. "I ran over to the nearest tree and climbed it." "But you said there were no trees." "You don't understand. There has to be a tree!" And I have to find it, Robert thought. He

If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate. The

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

If we want a spaceship built or the distance of a star measured, we call in the experts. But when we want something really important done, we collect twelve ordinary folks to do it. As I recall, the founder of Christianity did the same thing.

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms - greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind. (Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Then there was
only the soft night wind and the timeless sea. And the
stars above, where it had all been written.

The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind.

It's bEtter tO hAte me 4 whO i Am,thAn tO lUv 4 wAt i'm pretNdng tO bE ...

I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.

Once you have the solution, the problem might not be interesting.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

But she was looking into the past, trying to understand when it was that all the laughter died.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED BACK down the empty church,

only in this life you made your own miracles, because god was busy elsewhere.

I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.

Already churning. If I come, will you make Dad put

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

Do you always throw your money away like this?"
"Only when I'm in love,

We're brought up to expect a happy ending. But there are no happy endings. There's only death waiting for us. We find love and happiness, and it's snatched away from us without rhyme or reason. We're on a deserted space ship careening mindlessly among the stars. The world is Dachau, and we're all Jews.

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

If you would seek to find yourself
look not in the mirror
for there is but a shadow there'
A stranger ...
SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.

They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.

There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. - SIR WILLIAM OSLER

You are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

When they die no one will ever know that once they lived.

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