John Grisham Quotes

I used to walk in a bookstore and see all these books on the walls. And I would say, 'Who wants to hear from me? What do I have to add to all of this?'

John Grisham

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• Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Success
  • Ideas
  • Green

• I spend my own money, not other people's money.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • People
  • Money
  • My Own

• I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Done
  • Want
  • Star

• Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Problem

• We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Up
  • Choice
  • Consequences

• The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Madness
  • Which

• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Work
  • Mistakes
  • Motivational

• The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Family
  • Power

• Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Dollars
  • Line
  • Effectiveness

• I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Celebrity
  • Celebrities

• Wrestling is more of a creative outlet, and especially for somebody like me, I view it as my creative outlet. Not all WWE superstars and not all wrestlers view it that way, but that's how I view it, and that's one of the ways my mind works creatively.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Creative

• Haiti is in desperate poverty.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Poverty
  • Desperate
  • Haiti

• I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Born
  • Talent
  • Songwriting

• But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Find
  • Fog

• I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Years
  • Washington
  • Variety

• Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• This is a very, very conservative judge who in his dissenting opinions is overwhelmingly likely to be more conservative than the majority.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Opinion
  • Judging
  • Conservative

• The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

  

  Sheena Easton
  • World
  • Music
  • Country

• To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Children
  • Team
  • Parent

• Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • Up
  • Good

• I used to walk in a bookstore and see all these books on the walls. And I would say, 'Who wants to hear from me? What do I have to add to all of this?'

  

  John Grisham