Top 100 Grisham's Quotes
#1. I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.
John Grisham
#2. Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes have broken up.
John Grisham
#3. 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
#4. His book, The Dreams of Ada, was published by Viking in April 1987 and was greatly anticipated by the town.
John Grisham
#5. We all have our little secrets, and as long as they're harmless, who really cares? With time, the secrets often go away and things don't matter anymore.
John Grisham
#6. Litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits.
John Grisham
#7. Focused ultrasound therapy is still in its early stages, still experimental, but there is enough research to date to be very optimistic.
John Grisham
#8. son of a freed slave who took possession of
John Grisham
#9. At times he thinks like a terrorist, then he cries like a little child.
- Reggie Love
John Grisham
#10. No, thanks. They won't go away. You take care of Ricky and Mom, and me and the lawyer'll take care of the FBI.
John Grisham
#11. I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
John Grisham
#12. Paul's story to have a happier ending - for ourselves
John Grisham
#14. Next, a young black kid was brought in and his handcuffs
John Grisham
#15. Well, in my world, our world, there are too many guns and too many bad things happen because of them." Pippin,
John Grisham
#16. We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered to give us an interview. I guess there's a Trent & Brent in every city, in every field. I didn't make it and I don't belong, so I'll just go through life hating them.
John Grisham
#17. She was drained from the shock and fear of looking at the emotional wreckage of real humans, desperate people with little hope and looking to her for help.
John Grisham
#18. I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.
John Grisham
#19. impulsively as his shoulders sagged. "Reputation,
John Grisham
#20. He sketches a world of Darwinian struggle where all the savages wear three-piece suits.
Stephen King
#21. In his haste to get his client on and off the stand with as little damage as possible, Barney neglected to rebut most of the allegations from the state's witnesses. Ron could have explained his "dream confession" to Rogers and Featherstone the night after his arrest.
John Grisham
#22. The relief came from the sudden realization that she had just been freed from a job she despised.
John Grisham
#23. Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.
John Grisham
#24. It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.
John Grisham
#25. Our clients are our only assets, so we kill ourselves for them.
John Grisham
#26. He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast.
John Grisham
#27. let's get away from him, go somewhere else.' I
John Grisham
#28. I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.
John Grisham
#30. I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
John Grisham
#32. I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
John Grisham
#33. I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
John Grisham
#34. Love yourself,.,.,.,for the sake of
your better future
John Grisham
#35. Don't ever get involved in politics, Theo. It's a dirty game.
John Grisham
#36. She nodded again, and took a deep breath. A small tear managed to find its way through the swelling and dropped onto her left cheek. He
John Grisham
#37. Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?
John Grisham
#39. and exactly twenty-one feet from the ground. From there it fell about nine feet, culminating in a perfect hangman's knot, one that Seth had undoubtedly worked on for some time. The noose was straight from the textbook with thirteen
John Grisham
#40. If the video camera was loaded with a tape, it was never seen. If Detective Smith made a report of the interview, it was never produced in the legal proceedings that followed.
John Grisham
#41. He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.
John Grisham
#42. Goethe said, "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." The same holds true for demons. If you look for evil, you will find it.
Jack Grisham
#43. if you don't think about death, you don't appreciate life.
John Grisham
#44. Purvis. This is my associate, Samantha Kofer. We've been hired to get our client out of jail. Snowden took a step back as Mattie pressed ahead. Samantha, treading water, wasn't sure what to do, so
John Grisham
#45. Smithsonian is actually a group of nineteen different museums and a zoo,
John Grisham
#46. in Italian. For the first time in his new home, Rick admitted to himself that learning a few words was not a bad idea. In fact, it was a great idea if he had any hope of scoring points with the girls.
John Grisham
#47. He hadn't hit her in several years, but when you've been beaten you never forget it. The bruises go away but the scars remain, deep, hidden, raw. You stay beaten. It takes a real coward to beat a woman.
John Grisham
#48. I don't trust judges. Perhaps it's the nature of my profession. I like knockouts, not decisions.
John Grisham
#49. It preyed on human desire and it paid off by sheer terror.
John Grisham
#50. How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
John Grisham
#51. I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.
Francis Ford Coppola
#52. (He) paused for a second and once more marveled at the speed with which one person's private business could be so thoroughly kicked around the neighborhood.
John Grisham
#53. The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.
John Grisham
#54. The one's who want to make a difference, the people who can change the world for the better, are laughed out of the game by the players.
Joshua Grisham
#55. He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.
John Grisham
#56. It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
John Grisham
#57. I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had this view.
John Grisham
#58. We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.
John Grisham
#59. Hubbard obtained the land from Sylvester's widow.
John Grisham
#60. know for sure that a crime is being planned. He said some things any father would say, and I'm sure he's having thoughts any father would have. But as far as actually planning a crime, I don't think so. Secondly,
John Grisham
#61. Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
John Grisham
#62. Just started the new John Grisham book, "The Litigators" and so far it's a pretty good story.
I've always been a John Grisham fan and have read almost everything he has written with the exception of maybe only 2 books.
John Grisham
#63. But Paul has a problem. He has a tumor in the right frontal lobe of his brain, about the size of a hen's egg.
John Grisham
#64. Nor did she like society's way of presuming she was unhappy because she had not found the right guy.
John Grisham
#65. It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.
John Grisham
#66. The Deep South has the friendliest people in the world. They will do anything for you. They also want to know what's going on and won't hesitate to ask questions.
John Grisham
#67. What kind of name is Siler-Spence? I mean, what's wrong with these women who use hyphens? What if her name was Skowinski and she married a guy named Levondowski? Would her little liberated soul insist she go through life as F.Gwendolin Skowinski- Levondowski?
John Grisham
#68. I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.
John Grisham
#69. The sixth and last eulogy was from Roderick, Hugo and Verna's oldest child. He wrote a three-page tribute to his father, and it was read by the reverend. Even Michael Geismar, a cold-blooded Presbyterian, finally succumbed to his emotions. The
John Grisham
#70. That's sounds right. Another $5,000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like he paid off the MORTAGE on his parents' home, which wasn't that much.
John Grisham
#71. There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
John Grisham
#72. Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
John Grisham
#73. And it's often the one you trust the most who'll cut your throat for the right price.
John Grisham
#74. He's got himself, and he's got a beard. That's all Chris Jericho needs.
Todd Grisham
#75. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects against self-incrimination,
John Grisham
#76. You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.
John Grisham
#77. Aside from John Grisham, there isn't really anybody besides Tess that I've truly gotten into. But, I do like them. When I have more time to read, I will absolutely look for some more authors. It's just about finding a world and a character that you're intrigued by.
Sasha Alexander
#79. We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.
John Grisham
#80. Like so many, this trial is not about the truth; it's about winning.
John Grisham
#81. Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
John Grisham
#82. Keep his eyes off Naomi. Because she's a knockout and dressed fashionably, she's
John Grisham
#83. It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.
John Grisham
#84. Our prisons are packed. Our streets are filled with drugs. Who's winning the war? We've lost our minds.
John Grisham
#85. John Grisham exhaled, feeling his breath leave his body as he did, like his wife's yoga instructor had taught him to do that one time. He never went back to that yoga instructor, but he still thought about that session sometimes.
B.J. Novak
#86. Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.
John Grisham
#87. Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care.
Todd Grisham
#88. By the boats in the harbor. What else would you like to know?" "You plan to keep him tomorrow night?" "I get thirty-six hours, once a month. That's 9:00 a.m. tomorrow until 9:00 p.m. Sunday. Do the math. It's not that complicated." The waiter pops in to
John Grisham
#89. Well, in my defense, I was walking the floor at three this morning with her latest child. I think it's a girl. What's her name?
John Grisham
#90. And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
John Grisham
#91. I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.
John Grisham
#92. I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the book library, you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's, like, children's food - chips, milkshakes, yogurt.
Simon Cowell
#94. I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
Gary Locke
#95. But [Stanley Wade] instead removed his glasses and wiped his eyes. They were moist not from fear but from the harsh reality of being confronted by one of his victims. How many others were out there? Why had he chosen to spend his career screwing these people?
~from "Michael's Room"~
John Grisham
#96. You just don't understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it's harmless. We all look. Come on.
John Grisham
#98. When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.
John Grisham
#99. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let's get him off the streets.
John Grisham
#100. But the Court of Criminal Appeals was not always a rubber stamp for the prosecution. Much to Mark Barrett's delight, he received the news on April 16, 1991, that a new trial had been ordered for Greg Wilhoit.
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