Top 100 Sheridan Quotes
#1. Playing on her femininity and making him feel uncomfortable seemed highly effective.
Sara Sheridan
#2. Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.
Sara Sheridan
#3. You're coming up to the main house and that's final. I'm laying down the law. I know somewhere in there you're arguing with me, but I'm not taking no for an answer. You have no choice but to obey me. How do you like that, wife?
Mia Sheridan
#4. Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#5. Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.
Sara Sheridan
#6. From the stars we came, to the stars we return. From now until the end
of time. We therefore commit these bodies to the deep.
John Sheridan
#8. I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
Dinah Sheridan
#9. A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.
Sara Sheridan
#10. Some people can't be fixed, or if they can, it's only by love so big it destroys the fixer.
Mia Sheridan
#11. I just randomly fell into acting. I was so young at the time that I never really thought about acting ... After I was into it, I had a feeling that I was going to end up doing this anyway somehow.
Tye Sheridan
#12. He made it ok. When I was loved by Leo, I always felt like I would be okay.
Mia Sheridan
#14. In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.
Sara Sheridan
#15. I leaned my head on the back of the wooden chair and looked over at his handsome profile, all alight in the glow of the fire. For a second he looked like a God, maybe of the Sun, all golden and beautiful, his own magnificence outdoing that of the dancing flames.
Mia Sheridan
#16. Peanut butter, jelly, applesauce? Are you six? I grinned at him.
He didn't smile back, though, just looked at me for a few beats as if considering my question. In some ways, yes, Bree. In other ways, no
Mia Sheridan
#17. It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted.
Sara Sheridan
#18. I said: 'I'm throwing in my job, and I'm going to write a book.' Everyone thought: 'She's off her trolley,' and it was quite crazy, really. I'm just lucky that it came off.
Sara Sheridan
#19. I'm going to take it slow this time. We're going to burn every stroke, every touch, and every kiss into our skin so when we're back together, it will only then just be cooling. While we're apart, we'll still be keeping each other warm.
Mia Sheridan
#20. Fighting is a way to force something to happen.
Sam Sheridan
#21. One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.
Sara Sheridan
#22. As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a big head on, and you couldn't see my face. My mum was very disappointed.
Sheridan Smith
#23. Being able to escape to a dreamland was a survival instinct for me.
Mia Sheridan
#24. For the first time in my whole life, I feel like I have control over the monsters in my head. For the first time in my life, I have hope.
Mia Sheridan
#25. Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong,
Which ought not to be true!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#26. But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.
Dinah Sheridan
#27. I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#28. Note found in the patron suggestion box:
"You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They laugh out loud and talk out loud. Libraries used to be quiet, but they aren't anymore because you let all the assholes in!!!!!
Gina Sheridan
#29. Most fledgling and mid-list writers are lucky to be offered a 4-figure sum and are not only expected to deliver copy that needs minimal editing but also take an active part in marketing and publicizing their work.
Sara Sheridan
#30. She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.
Sara Sheridan
#31. If Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#33. I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.
Sara Sheridan
#34. The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.
Sara Sheridan
#35. There's always someone society chooses not to see. There's always someone who is invisible through no fault of their own.
Mia Sheridan
#36. In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#38. It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us.
Sara Sheridan
#39. I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate.
Sara Sheridan
#40. I am compliance itself - when I am not thwarted; - no one more easily led - when I have my own way.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#41. But what I did know was that I loved a girl. And I knew I loved her in a way I'd never, ever recover from. I knew I loved her to the very core of myself. And I knew she loved me back.
Mia Sheridan
#42. Life was full of so many possibilities - why should you spend even one day of it being bored?
Mia Sheridan
#44. I hope we're working toward something? There's so much ... I'll take whatever you have to give me, Tenleigh. Anything.
Mia Sheridan
#45. The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction.
Sara Sheridan
#46. I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work.
Tye Sheridan
#47. I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a novelist and not a sicko, they were extremely helpful.
Sara Sheridan
#48. The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,
which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.
James Sheridan Knowles
#49. I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.
Sara Sheridan
#50. The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed.
Tonya Sheridan
#51. He looked like every hero in every fairy tale I'd ever dreamed come to life. And, God, I wanted to believe in heroes again. But sometimes, I supposed, a girl just had to be her own hero.
Mia Sheridan
#52. It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.
Sara Sheridan
#53. I read Borges, Jorge Luis Borges. He think he too good for me, but I love him ... he was a blind man who see better than anyone
Sheridan Hay
#54. Way I see it, maybe it's not so unfair, as unfinished. If you stopped in the middle of a lot of stories, they'd seem unfair. You're still in the middle of yours.
Mia Sheridan
#55. The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
Sara Sheridan
#56. I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan.
Sara Sheridan
#57. I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.
Sheridan Smith
#59. Eden, yeah, she was definitely a morning glory: as pretty as a flower, with the strength of a weed.
Mia Sheridan
#60. To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#61. It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.
Sara Sheridan
#63. My logical mind simply can't make sense of the ability to see things before they even happen. However, experience has shown me that there is a lot more to reality than that which is generally considered "logical.
Kim Sheridan
#64. The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic, an apparent as well as a hidden value.
Sheridan Hay
#66. He gazed up at me in that way that made me feel cherished. His expression was simultaneously wondrous and joyful. I realized that I put that expression on this beautiful man's face.
Mia Sheridan Archer's Voice
#67. That's our plan because I swear to you, my beautiful, sweet love, everyone deserves a love story that doesn't hurt.
Mia Sheridan
#68. I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.
Sara Sheridan
#69. Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.
Sara Sheridan
#70. I keep telling myself that maybe, eventually, we'll get to know each other, and he might like me. A lot. But that's a long way off, and in the meantime, I already know I like him. A lot. And I don't know what to do with these feelings
Erin McCahan
#71. Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels!
Sheridan Smith
#72. The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.
Sara Sheridan
#73. I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.
Sara Sheridan
#75. It's like, the second I saw him, my life stated.
Mia Sheridan
#76. It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms.
Sara Sheridan
#77. For just a moment in time, we were just a boy and a girl, running and laughing in the rain on our wedding day.
Mia Sheridan
#78. When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#79. Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.
Sara Sheridan
#80. What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.
Dinah Sheridan
#81. If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.
John Sheridan
#82. People suffer all over the world, every day. But people triumph all over the world every day, too.
Mia Sheridan
#83. My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish.
Sara Sheridan
#84. Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.
Sara Sheridan
#85. Happily ever after doesn't mean a lifetime of perfection. I don't think anyone believes that happily ever after means there are no unhappy days, even unhappy years. It means loving forever, despite all the many reasons it's easier not to.
Mia Sheridan
#86. the strong opinions I entertained against the marriage of first cousins,
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#87. Give Thoughts Room Your thoughts are just your thoughts. They are not your life. They are your thoughts. Make a room as big as the sky in your mind. Your thoughts can be clouds that float through.
Tai Sheridan
#88. I wanted her. I wanted to strip her naked. I wanted to thrust into her, hard and fast, and watch her face as I did it. I wanted to know what she was thinking as my body filled hers.
Mia Sheridan
#89. This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.
Sara Sheridan
#90. Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#91. Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#93. Because I missed you. Because I didn't have anyone else to talk to, and so I kept talking to you, even though you never answered.
Mia Sheridan
#95. I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.
Nicollette Sheridan
#96. You're worth fighting for. Maybe I'm getting there. Maybe I'm not the bad bet that I believed myself to be for so, so long.
Mia Sheridan
#98. I don't have time to worry about them when they are not.
John Sheridan
#99. I'm going to kiss you now, Evie, and when I do, it's going to mean that you're mine. I don't care how far away from each other we are. You. Are. Mine. I'll wait for you. And I want you to wait for me. Promise me you won't let anyone else touch you. Promise me you'll save yourself for me.
Mia Sheridan
#100. The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.
Sara Sheridan
