The Summons John Grisham Quotes

#1. If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.

Andrew Mellon

#2. Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Pablo Picasso

#3. We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.

Shirley Chisholm

#4. I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Eric Allin Cornell

#5. I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.

Jim Sturgess

#6. Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns
fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns
seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.

Irvin D. Yalom

#7. There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

Sam Phillips

#8. There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Maria Edgeworth

#9. I thought of inviting you to my other club but you know how it is. Lunching there is a useful way of reminding people that you're still alive, but the members will come up and congratulate you on the fact.

P.D. James

#10. I feel clobbered by the impossibility of translating into words as much of this enormous world we live in with its subtly complex and sprawling Periodic Table of emotions. To quote Freddie Mercury, I want it all.

David Mitchell

#11. Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

Dale Carnegie

#12. More disturbing than hurt is love when it's wrong.

Ali Land

#13. Was that you, Pooky Bear?

Susan Ee