John Grisham > Quotes

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“You live your life today,
Not tommorow,
and certainly not yesterday.”
― John Grisham

“Some people have more guts than brains.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.”
― John Grisham, The Testament

“I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“Critics should find meaningful work.”
― John Grisham

“I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.”
― John Grisham, The Street Lawyer

“A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?”
― John Grisham, The Appeal

“Life is short..Live to the fullest..”
― John Grisham, The Runaway Jury

“Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
― John Grisham, The Testament

“I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.”
― John Grisham, A Painted House

“When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.”
― John Grisham, The Testament

“The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.”
― John Grisham, The Testament

“And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!”
― John Grisham, The Brethren

“All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.”
― John Grisham, The Confession

“He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.”
― John Grisham, The Confession

“You count the days and watch the years go by. You tell yourself, and you believe it, that you'd rather just die. You'd rather stare death boldly in the face and say you're ready because whatever is waiting on the other side has to be better than growing old in a six-by-ten cage with no one to talk to. You consider yourself half-dead at best. Please take the other half.

You've watched dozens leave and not return, and you accept the fact that one day they'll come for you. You're nothing but a rat in their lab, a disposable body to be used as proof that their experiment is working. An eye for an eye, each killing must be avenged. You kill enough and you're convinced that killing is good.

You count the days, and then there are none left. You ask yourself on your last morning if you are really ready. You search for courage, but the bravery is fading. When it's over, no one really wants to die.”
― John Grisham, The Confession

“I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.”
― John Grisham, A Painted House

“Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully & slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, & I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter is ever raped, I hope I have the guts to do what he did.”
― John Grisham

“I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better”
― John Grisham

“judge not that ye be not judged”
― John Grisham, The Last Juror

“You need some coffee, don't you?"
"Yes, I've only had a gallon.”
― John Grisham, The Confession

“The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.”
― John Grisham, The Appeal

“Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.”
― John Grisham, The Confession