Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination. — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer. — Roky Erickson Copy Share Image
My first movie was 'Sudden Fear' with Joan Crawford, and I remember I played a lawyer. — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with… — Dennis Kozlowski Copy Share Image
“As it turns out, public defenders are less Superman and more Sisyphus, and there’s no small number of lawyers who wind up… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer.… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I know what sexual harassment looks like. I'm also a lawyer by training and am highly aware that these behaviors should have… — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
“Present us with a silver cup for something when you're a filthy rich lawyer, I dare say? Yes. You'll be a lawyer.… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Conservatives believe that we need to defeat radical Islam not because we want war but because ISIS and other radical Islamist are… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
It grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
When I became a lawyer, no one asked me if I had spent some time in special ed. All they wanted was… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I want to study law, become a lawyer, and work in Afghanistan for human rights. — Sonita Alizadeh Copy Share Image
I've been to some Hollywood parties where things have happened, and people have probably needed to get a good lawyer. — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
“I’m a lawyer, Rachel. We keep going until we get an answer we believe.” — Mhairi McFarlane Copy Share Image
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake. — Robert J. White Copy Share Image
I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino. — Richard Ingrams Copy Share Image
My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league. — David Stern Copy Share Image
You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference? — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Believe me, I'm not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time. — Cris Collinsworth Copy Share Image
Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
