Caryl Chessman Quotes

#1. If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

Caryl Chessman

#2. You're really not right, are you? (Sin)
With my background and genetic makeup, buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

Caryl Chessman

#4. The shift from thinking that I must feel forgiveness to the practice of repetitive giving forgiveness has helped me in my healing journey.

Lisa J. Shultz

#5. Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.

Caroline Knapp

#6. The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

Marina Abramovic

#7. I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Caryl Chessman

#8. A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

Caryl Chessman

#9. Never mind," I said crisply. "I have my methods." I dug out my entire stock of manly courage, breathed a short prayer and let her have it right in the thorax.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

Caryl Chessman

#11. How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.

Caryl Chessman

#12. This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.

Jennie Finch

#13. If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.

Joe Biden

#14. My soul is not for sale.

Caryl Chessman

#15. Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

Caryl Chessman

#16. Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of the trees themselves. Even the most gnarled tree is eloquent in the telling of its own tale.

Brian Froud

#17. The soul without God for eternity is in an abyss.

John Ortberg