John Grisham Quotes
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
Quotes to Explore
-
I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
-
I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
-
I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
-
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
-
My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
-
I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
-
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
-
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
-
I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
-
Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
-
The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
-
I don't see myself as a diva at all.
-
Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
-
I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
-
We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
-
If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
-
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
-
I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
-
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
-
Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
-
For 10 years, I'd been told I was always going to be a catalogue girl, never a cover girl. Well, I got with IMG and did five covers in a year, boom, boom, boom.
-
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
-
Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11 or 12 I started writing songs in English. And then after a while of writing these songs in English it came to me that there was no reason for me to sing in English because I lived in Argentina and also there was something important [about Spanish], so I started writing in Spanish.
-
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
