Answers Quote by James Lipton

Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it.…

— John Henry Wigmore

I call my lawyer and say, 'Can I ask you two questions?' He says, 'What's the second question?'

— Henny Youngman

Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my…

— Harper Lee

Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the…

— John Henry Wigmore

“Write what you know best. If you can't survive a cross-examination from a lawyer on the subject, you won't survive an interview with a…

— Linda F. Radke

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.

— Alex Flinn

Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer.

— Lani Guinier

My mom's a lawyer. She was part of the group that wrote the bar exam. My father is a dentist. They've always worked.

— Daniel Schwartz

I studied law, so perhaps I might have made it to the Bar, though I gave up that idea when I suspected playing a…

— Mark Strong

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

— Will Rogers

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and…

— Charles Dickens

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

— Anita Hill