Closets Quote by Sol Stein Download Open image “A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.” — Sol Stein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Closets Job Manipulate Jobs Lawyer Manipulate Manipulate Skeletons People People Closets Skeletons Skeletons People
Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots. — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over. — Robert Whitlow Copy Share Image
A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings. — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
“Lawyers get up in front of people, and they posture. They make themselves seem big and loud so people will look at them and… — Meg Harding Copy Share Image
This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering. — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
“The fundamental tension of the profession is the struggle between bold advocacy of the client's interests and the need to establish and hold to… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society. — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
“It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
“The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want… — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been shut in a closet, and he's on the other side, and he doesn't have the key to unlock the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while. — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big! — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
All of my life, actually, I had a real strong relationship with God, but I was always in the closet about it. The only… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
