Quotes About Rainmaker

#1. I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan; I keep getting offered jobs so good I can't say no.

Matt Damon

#2. 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

#3. History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

Douglas MacArthur

#4. It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

Robert Cormier

#5. A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.

Virgil Miller Newton

#6. Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs.

Stanley Hauerwas

#7. And they didn't like to pay with trust and love, but rather with money and goods. They betrayed each other and expected being betrayed themselves.

Hermann Hesse

#8. There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

William S. Burroughs

#9. work and a minority that is too ill to work. The latter

Kenneth J. Rothman

#10. I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.

Casper Van Dien

#11. I just felt all along that if I could get a certain amount of years in the league, have great years and still have my health when I walked away, that would be great.

Kevin Johnson

#12. Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go ...

Marianne Moore

#13. Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!

John Grisham

#14. Because of the times, and because the child has been living in a world filled with every kind of thrill and adventure, it is safe to assume that he is not interested in the same type of radio that amused him before the war.

Judith C. Waller

#15. I know the law ... I am it's greatest transgressor.

Roy Bean

#16. James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.

Brigitte Bardot

#17. History is on the side of the regulators.

Ha-Joon Chang

#18. Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. I guess the most epic romances are still tucked away within the pages of her favorite novels, safely swathed in inked lies and faded paper promises. Forever fictional. Just like love.

S.L. Jennings