I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.
JOHN GRISHAM I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a boo...
JOHN GRISHAM I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
JOHN GRISHAM Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.
JOHN GRISHAM In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you h...
JOHN GRISHAM Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books...
JOHN GRISHAM One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You...
JOHN GRISHAM I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maxi...
JOHN GRISHAM Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to t...
JOHN GRISHAM Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn'...
JOHN GRISHAM I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed...
JOHN GRISHAM I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little p...
JOHN GRISHAM The Deep South has the friendliest people in the world. They will do anything for you. They also wan...
JOHN GRISHAM I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed...
JOHN GRISHAM Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully and slowly so that even you w...
JOHN GRISHAM Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
JOHN GRISHAM There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
JOHN GRISHAM Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. I...
JOHN GRISHAM I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges...
JOHN GRISHAM It may seem odd that I'm here today - the unapologetic writer of popular fiction - on Faulkner's fro...
JOHN GRISHAM Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the s...
JOHN GRISHAM I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss...
JOHN GRISHAM You live your life today,
Not tomorrow,
and certainly not yesterday.
JOHN GRISHAM Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd g...
JOHN GRISHAM My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from th...
JOHN GRISHAM Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalt...
JOHN GRISHAM It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself so...
JOHN GRISHAM You look at the crime and you look at the criminal. If it's a dope dealer who guns down an undercove...
JOHN GRISHAM In these very, very rare circumstances - this tragic time - we hope the gift will get some attention...
JOHN GRISHAM Critics should find meaningful work.
JOHN GRISHAM cubbyhole
JOHN GRISHAM underwriting,” an odious but not illegal practice. When a claim
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JOHN GRISHAM Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours ...
JOHN GRISHAM I can feel the competition here, very much like the first few weeks of law school when we were terri...
JOHN GRISHAM F. Franklin the Fourth has a job with a firm rich in heritage, money and pretentiousness, a firm vas...
JOHN GRISHAM I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only ...
JOHN GRISHAM It takes just one, he says over and over. You hear that all the time in this business. One big case,...
JOHN GRISHAM Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.
JOHN GRISHAM The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I he...
JOHN GRISHAM There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.
JOHN GRISHAM We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, ...
JOHN GRISHAM life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.
JOHN GRISHAM He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.
JOHN GRISHAM The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.
JOHN GRISHAM All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but ...
JOHN GRISHAM A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.
JOHN GRISHAM Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.
JOHN GRISHAM I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of ...
JOHN GRISHAM Some people have more guts than brains.
JOHN GRISHAM In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.
JOHN GRISHAM If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.
JOHN GRISHAM When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.
JOHN GRISHAM I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but t...
JOHN GRISHAM I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That...
JOHN GRISHAM Sistrunk looked angrily at Lettie and said, "I'm allowed to be paid for my time and expenses, plus t...
JOHN GRISHAM Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
JOHN GRISHAM And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have bee...
JOHN GRISHAM Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a ...
JOHN GRISHAM I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So ...
JOHN GRISHAM Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest...
JOHN GRISHAM Since most law-abiding citizens had no contact with the parole system, it was not a priority with th...
JOHN GRISHAM You wired the kid," Truemann said meekly to no one in particular.
"Why not? No crime. You're th...
JOHN GRISHAM The reason is obvious. You're my grandfather, okay. Like it or not, you're who you are and i'm who i...
JOHN GRISHAM My family is a huge help. They help in any way they can. ... We do the same for each other.
HEATHER GRISHAM It's really a big part of my life, and so it is with my children.
HEATHER GRISHAM I've always gone since I was a child. I thought it was something everybody did. We're all so close.
HEATHER GRISHAM I thought we played okay. We played all top-ranked 5A schools. We may not have taken in match victor...
LEE GRISHAM It will be fun. It's a game, and until that registers with the girls it will be a learning experienc...
LEE GRISHAM We have had a string of girls out with various forms of illness and injuries. You just have to hope ...
LEE GRISHAM They played pretty well this past weekend. I expect them to come in here and battle us tooth and nai...
LEE GRISHAM We were out of sync tonight after a week of not playing. But we got our goal tonight, scoring 15 poi...
LEE GRISHAM My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE