Lawyer Quotes - Page 14

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

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

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.

I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.

I'm a hard headed lawyer.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

The story I always recite - and have had to recite so many times over the years to different lawyers and different people within Universal - is that the business end of Mo'Wax was basically, like, 'Give us the big ones samples first, and we'll see how we get on.' And I gave them the six or seven that were, to me, the ones that were the scariest, and the biggest use. It wasn't about the big names, necessarily - although that played into it a bit, with people like Bjork and Metallica.

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone.

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer and the next minute I was in parliament.

Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.

I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.

My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.

Looking back, it didn't even occur to me that model was a job. I wanted to go into astronomy or to be a lawyer, which is really funny because I would absolutely not be a lawyer in any way now. But I still like astronomy.

I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.

That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.