Best 354 quotes in «lawyer quotes» category

Looking back, it didn't even occur to me that model was a job. I wanted to go into astronomy or to be a lawyer, which is really funny because I would absolutely not be a lawyer in any way now. But I still like astronomy.

Marijuana was a new phenomenon when we started. Now it's for everyone - doctors, lawyers, presidents.

Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.

Making movies wasn't really an immediate thought, where I was raised. I was going to be a lawyer, and I thought I would just draw. So, I was sketching all the time and I realized that I needed some outlet, and then I found animation.

Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.

My father was a lawyer.

My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.

My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ass thick ass they can.

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

No matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer.

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

Oh no, no, no! Are you going to suck my blood? (Amanda Do I look like a lawyer to you? (Kyrian)

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.

Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom.

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

Rudy has always been a scary character, so there's a place for him on Halloween.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.

Sitting in the darkness of the cinema, I got to see another world. This imaginary world was a refuge for many of us. Of course, the films were controlled and censored by the regime. But I still thought, around this time, that maybe making films would be good for me. I thought of expressing myself through this medium, and of doing something for the Kurds. The options were clear: either I'd work as a lawyer under the Baath regime or make movies independently.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

The amazing fact that one person can make his own film - I think animation is somewhat unique in that respect. I don't need to deal with lawyers. I don't need to deal with corporations. I don't need to deal with executives or agents or any of that. I can just sit at home and make a feature film. That's a wonderful experience. Each film I make gets more popular, more press and makes more money. So it's amazing that I've survived and actually prospered doing that sort of homegrown, cottage-industry filmmaking.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.

The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.

The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her e-mails, as we did for those available to us; instead, they relied on header information and used search terms to try to find all work-related e-mails among the reportedly more than 60,000 total e-mails remaining on Secretary Clinton’s personal system in 2014.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings