Lawyer Quotes
As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.
My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!
I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.
The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.
...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.
We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.
I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.
There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.
Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.
I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.
I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.
About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.
I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.
If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.
This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.
I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.