Lawyer Quotes - Page 36

• Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.

  Bill Watterson

  Taken, Artist, Talking

  Source: mentalfloss.com

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• If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mother, College, Kiev

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Jail, Demand, Letters

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• My lawyer's opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more - because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That's his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.

  Banksy

  Believe, Ties, Cartoon

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law.

  Chris Rock

  Believe, Law, Comedian

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I'm the youngest, too. When you're the youngest of a big family, people are like, "You're the baby, you're spoiled!" The fact of the matter is, when you're the youngest of a big family, by the time you're a teenager, your parents are insane. You're like, "Hey, I'm going roller-skating-" "You're not going roller-skating or you'll end up pregnant like your sister. Why don't you smoke pot and become a lawyer?"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Baby, Teenager

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• The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two-year suspension for a lawyer found having jailhouse sex with a triple murder defendant she was representing. HaHa! Jokes on you dummies... I'm not really a lawyer!

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Sex, Humor

  "Saturday Night Live Weekend Update" with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, snltranscripts.jt.org. April 9, 2005.

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• Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Art, Years, Creating

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Artist, Worst, Stills

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• Even after going to law school, following the footsteps of my father (an accomplished lawyer and judge at the time); I realized that the suit would never replace the kimono!

  Carlos Machado

  Father, School, Law

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• I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit by the bug of philosophy and wanted to be a philosophy professor. I went to graduate school and quickly discovered it was impossible for a woman in those days - this was the early fifties - to be a philosopher, so I gave that up.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Father, Philosophy, School

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• One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.

  Cate Marvin

  Successful, Wanted, Ifs

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

  John E. Jones III

  Office, Court, Desks

  Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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• If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.

  Gabriel Ba

  Doctors, Stuff, Making Money

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Arguing, Debate, Happens

  "Shonda Rhimes knows when and how ‘Scandal’ ends. She’s just not telling". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 24, 2015.

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• Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.

  Denis Healey

  Law, People, Trying

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• As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what."

  Javier Bardem

  Character, Play, Judging

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 27, 2010.

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• Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Law, Justice, Diversity

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• Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

  Voltaire

  Law, Uniforms, Clear

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• A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent.

  John Adams

  Doors, Law, Doubt

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• I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

  John Adams

  Family, Home, Boys

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• This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life--it prepares him for death.

  Daniel Webster

  Book, Men, Years

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• I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

  Robert Smith

  Three, May, Able

  "Plain or Ringlets?" by Robert Smith, (ch. 40), 1860.

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• The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft."

  Alan King

  Fire, House, Kind

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