John Grisham Quotes

The idea of going back to school and revising for exams would be hellish. As an actor, my form of revising is learning scenes, but to start going through biology, chemistry, and all of those sciences would be just a nightmare.

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

I used to really panic about finals. I didn't understand the concept of how you could have one test that encompasses the entire semester.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I studied every moment that I wasn't sitting in class. I was very focused on maintaining a solid GPA, so I could go on to law school.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

A final is a final, and is motivation in itself.

School did stress me out, like it does for a lot of young people. I didn't like having to do work that I didn't care about.

I've always been an A or B student. When I get a B, I freak out a little bit!

If a student believes that taking too many exams is hard or skipping advanced courses for a lighter load is a better deal, just wait until he or she goes to college and needs to prepare for finals or has to figure out complex work problems in a stressful environment.

I only complained in school, as I did not like studying.

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.

I'm taking a pretty light load. I'm doing well. Gideon and Jason are both in school too, so we find time between shows to get work done, and during the day. I really like Columbia. Unlike high school, I don't feel any pressure to get straight-As. I just like learning.

What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.

Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.