John Grisham Quotes

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn't the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn't something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.

When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

I know it was raw in some places, and I was a jerk in some places, but that's the way I was, and I was stupid.

Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.

If I would have had the same opportunities when I was 22, there's a good chance I would have squandered them. I know my work wouldn't have been any good.

I've been disrespectful over the years in my career because I was living a young, turnt up life. So I've said a lot of crazy things about a lot of stuff and looking back, I wouldn't take anything back, but looking forward, I wouldn't do it again.

I was such an idiot until the age of 28.

Like most people in college, I just wasn't really sure who I was.

There's things that I see that I did on videos when I was younger that I be like, 'Damn, I was bugging.' Champagne Dame, that dude, he was bugging. I don't even know that guy.

When you go to college the first couple years, and you kind of get beat around, you kind of think about, 'Maybe if I went to pro ball, it would be a little bit better.' Now that I look back on it, I made the right choice.

College, for me, was more about wrestling than actually going to classes.

I know I've done bad things. But I've done just as much good as I have done bad. And it's not even necessarily bad. I would say they're growing pains.

I'm lucky that I don't have any big regrets. Maybe that undercut hairstyle from my youth.

I probably wish I'd worked harder in school. I loved school but it was more a social thing for me. I did well in school but I could have done better.

I was always the person who would make the mistake. I was the one who would get suspended from school.

The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.