Top 100 Sidney Sheldon Quotes
#1. I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.
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#2. We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.
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#3. Surely you've been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.
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#5. 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.
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#6. When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
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#7. But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Sing me no songs of daylight,
For the sun is the enemy of lovers
Sing instead of shadows and darkness,
And memories of midnight
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#10. 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
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#11. 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.
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#12. Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit
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#14. Do you always throw your money away like this?"
"Only when I'm in love,
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#15. God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.
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#16. Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!
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#17. The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind.
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#18. I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
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#19. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. that the countries that attack America for being too money-oriented are always the first to beg us for loans." It was the subject on which she and
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#23. I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.
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#24. He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Never let a friendly fox into your hen-house. One day he's going to get hungry.
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#28. 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.
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#29. But she was looking into the past, trying to understand when it was that all the laughter died.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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?
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#32. If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.
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#33. Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
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#34. I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.
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#35. When they die no one will ever know that once they lived.
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#36. A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
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#37. The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.
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#38. When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.
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#39. He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.
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#41. 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.
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#44. To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.
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#45. But there was not a police car in sight. Sure, Tracy thought in disgust. They're never around when you need them.
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#46. Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.
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#47. The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.
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#48. I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in
your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than
that?
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#49. Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
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#50. How long a honeymoon are you planning?" Mrs. Stanhope inquired. "About fifty years," Charles replied. And
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#51. It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..
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#52. It's bEtter tO hAte me 4 whO i Am,thAn tO lUv 4 wAt i'm pretNdng tO bE ...
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#53. Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.
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#54. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.
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Dr. Kat Hunter
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#55. You are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.
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#56. The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.
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#57. A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate. The
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#58. To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.
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#60. I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
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#61. To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.
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#62. Already churning. If I come, will you make Dad put
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#63. In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.
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#64. They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.
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#65. Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
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#66. 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.
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#68. 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.
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#69. Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
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#70. Want them hand-delivered by our own messengers. Do you
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#71. It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.
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#72. Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
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#73. 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.
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#74. Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.
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#75. HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED BACK down the empty church,
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#76. It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding.
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#77. She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.
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#78. 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.
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#79. Coleridge wrote, Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.
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#80. Once you have the solution, the problem might not be interesting.
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#81. I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.
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#82. Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
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#83. I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
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#85. There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. - SIR WILLIAM OSLER
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#86. I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
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#87. 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.
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#89. The difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
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#90. There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.
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#91. Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.
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#93. I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
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#94. 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.
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#95. The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.
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#96. 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.
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#97. I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.
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#98. Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it
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#99. Everything passes. Nothing is forever. Least of all love. Cameron
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#100. 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.
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