Bleachers Grisham Quotes & Sayings

These officials changed names they couldn't pronounce and tore people from their families, consigning to a return voyage old folks, people with bad eyes, riffraff and also those who looked insolent. Such power was dazzling. The immigrants were reminded of home. " Ragtime — E.L. Doctorow

I use to think being a warning was not meant to be apart of anyone's life purpose. However, how could you teach anything in life, without the deepest understanding of what not to do? Personally, I don't want someone offering advice, unless they have been to hell and back with a map and a compass. — Shannon L. Alder

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts. — Leo Howard

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini. — Vincente Minnelli

It might take an act of God to convince some Americans that parts of their government are corrupt, but at the same time, you cannot, under any circumstances, persuade an Iranian that his government is not corrupt! — Mahbod Seraji

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us. — Pauline Kael

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. — Laurie Colwin

Turns out rolling your eyes in a bar when 'Land Down Under' plays is like someone belching during the Star Spangled Banner in America. — Elle Lothlorien

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well. — Barbara Boxer

Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth. — Xenophon