Texas Death Row Quotes

#1. I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.

Kerry Max Cook

#2. Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
[Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]

George Herbert

#3. For Grenouille, this simplicity seemed a deliverance.

Patrick Suskind

#4. Which means that you stand a greater chance of dying while dealing crack in a Chicago housing project than you do while sitting on death row in Texas.

Anonymous

#5. I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

Josh Hartnett

#6. It takes some adjusting from a bow to a gun, but by the end of the day, I've got the best score in my class.

Suzanne Collins

#7. We are eternally Spiritual Beings, even in human form.

Jacqueline Lunger

#8. I admired her lack of compunction, the courage of her bad manners, the energy of simple rage. Throwing a bag of spaghetti had a simplicity to it, a recklessness, a careless grandeur. It got things over with. I was a long way, then, from being able to do anything like it myself.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Why not, if it feels good and someone offers? However, fucking wise? As of a few days ago, I just want one thing, and since he hasn't punched me in the face yet, I'm thinking I may have a shot at it.

Ella Frank

#10. To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

Jim Rohn

#11. Librarians often are wild in the sack, just like accountants.

Eve Jagger

#12. How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!

Martin Luther

#13. His thoughts should have kept him up all night, but with his friends this close Neil couldn't worry about anything.

Nora Sakavic

#14. Specialists debated whether to pull the plug, but Texas only executes people on death row, not when they're brain-dead, because it might mean culling most of their politicians.

Michael Robotham

#15. Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.

John C. Maxwell

#16. If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Rosalynn Carter