“Every man has his price. For some it's money, for some it's women, for others glory. But the honest man you don't have to buy - he winds up costing you nothing.”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
“Funny how you can go along for years hardly thinking about someone, then all of a sudden be so glad to see him.”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
“He picked up the telephone on his desk. “Bring in the Cord loan agreement and the check.” “You will note,” he said, “that although the loan is for three hundred thousand dollars, we have extended your credit under this agreement to a maximum of five hundred thousand dollars.” He smiled at me. “One of my principles of banking, Mr. Cord. I don’t believe in budgeting my clients too closely. Sometimes a few dollars more make the difference between success and failure.” Suddenly”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
“I put down the phone and finished lighting the cigarette. The blue cover of the script caught my eye. I picked up the telephone again. I gave the operator Tony Moroni’s home number”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
“By the time the doctor came, we had lifted my father’s body to the couch and covered it with a blanket. The doctor was a thin, sturdy man, bald, with thick glasses. He lifted the blanket and looked. He dropped the blanket. “He’s dead, all right.” I”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
“I don't really care whether I live that long or not, It's just that when I die, I dont want to leave any enemies, and I figure the only way to do that is to outlive them all.”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
“She looked down at her hands. “He said I couldn’t marry you. Not only because of that but because you’re—you’re half Indian!” “An’ just”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
“laughed aloud. “Don’t worry, Mr. Moroni. It’s as safe as an automobile.”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
“Make the loan for thirty thousand dollars,” I said.”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
“But in the room there was nothing but the exciting scent of the girl and her wanting. We”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
“took out a cigarette and almost before I had it in my mouth, Robair struck a match and held it for me. I dragged deep. “That’s all right, Robair. I don’t think”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
“got to my feet and stretched. This sitting at a desk for half a day was worse than anything I’d ever done. “O.K., I’ll go right up.” McAllister”
― Harold Robbins, quote from The Carpetbaggers
Harold Robbins
Born place: in New York, The United States
Born date May 21, 1916
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“When you love someone,
you don't want to hurt
them, even if they deserve
to be hurt. When you love
someone, you want to hurt
them, even when they don't
deserve to be hurt.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Glass
“The tense of the body is the present indicative; but the soul has a memory and a present and a future. I have conceived some extremely recondite pains for Mr. Trellis. I will pierce him with a pluperfect.”
― Flann O'Brien, quote from At Swim-Two-Birds
“memories were tricky things…they weren’t stable. they changed with perception over time. …they shifted, and [she] understood how the passage of time affected them. the hard working striver might recall his childhood as one filled with misery and hardship marred by the cat calls and mae calling of playground bullies, but later, have a much more forgiving understanding of past injustices. the handmade clothes he had been forced to wear, became a testament to his mother’s love. each patch and stitch a sign of her diligence, instead of a brand of poverty. he would remember father staying up late to help him with his homework – the old old man’s patience and dedication, instead of the sharpness of his temper when he returned home – late- from the factory. it went the other way as well.
[she] had scanned thousands of memories of spurned women, whose handsome lovers turned ugly and rude. roman noses, perhaps too pointed. eyes growing small and mean. while the oridnary looking boys who had become their husbands, grew in attractiveness as the years passed, so that when asked if it was love at first site, the women cheerfully answered yes. memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. they were stories people told themselves.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from The Van Alen Legacy
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
― Malala Yousafzai, quote from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“Death was a blessing, so great, so deep that we can fathom it only at those moments, like this one now, when we are reprieved from it. It was the return home from long, unspeakably painful wanderings, the correction of a great error, the loosening of tormenting chains, the removal of barriers---it set a horrible accident to rights again.”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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