Lawyer Quotes · Page 29

America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

— Bob Hope

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after,

— Lisa Scottoline

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

— Samuel Johnson

There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.

— Sydney Pollack

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

— Joni Mitchell

I made $70,000 in the 1990s, when I was a corporate lawyer. I didn't see that salary again until I was on MSNBC.

— Cenk Uygur

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

— Abraham Maslow

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

— Johnnie Cochran

My grandfather, my dad's dad, he was a lawyer. He was a state legislator. He was the publisher of Oregon's second largest…

— Travis Knight

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be…

— Vincent Bugliosi

I think an ethical lawyer would absolutely refuse, if he or she had knowledge that this is the purpose for which her…

— Viet D. Dinh

“Frankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of…

— Lionel Shriver

All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones,…

— Berry Gordy

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves…

— Luke the Evangelist

We're living in a time when so many of the civil rights and social justice organizations are run by lawyers and policy…

— Michelle Alexander

When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“It is true that too much legal writing is obfuscatory, wordy, dense and stilted. Many lawyers seem to believe that sounding like…

— Charles M. Fox

I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or…

— Terry Gross

The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then…

— John Silber

I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it…

— Shirley Chisholm

I think one could argue that there's more political input into the regulatory side, and on the regulatory side there seem to…

— Jamie Dimon

I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could…

— Craig Seymour

This is true in other fields, too, that a legal aid lawyer gets a whole lot less money than a Hollywood lawyer…

— Alice Mattison

You think about the Pledge of Allegiance, "liberty and justice for all." This is at the core of the American creed. The…

— Martha Minow

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

— Patricia J. Williams

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how…

— Ken Cuccinelli

The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law."

— Edward Snowden

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.

— Gal Gadot

The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

— Orrin Hatch

Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

— Keith Rothfus

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

— Bill Veeck

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

— Jean Giraudoux

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

— Anne Bishop

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

— Thomas Adams

“Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.”

— Anonymous

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

— Thomas Jefferson

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

— Russell Banks

I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing.

— Tom King