Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas D'Evelyn

Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.

Rick Moody

This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money.

Robert Ludlum

That gentleman will call the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I think they're scared of him. They're merely professional killers; he's in advertising!

Mario Puzo

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.

Amy Tan

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

John Barth

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

Leo Rosten

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Tom Verlaine

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Thomas Berger

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Alan Dershowitz

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

Richard Dieter

Every lawyer worth his salt is putting in a lethal injection challenge.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Alexandre Dumas

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

Chuck D.

On a number of occasions, he sliced people down. The tribe's lawyers were not able to shake my testimony.

Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Wilson Mizner

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Robin Wright

The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part of their vernacular.

Carlos Castaneda

The world around us is a mystery, and men are no better than anything else.

Patrick Griffet

There will still be a Red Men Lodge. We just won't have a building.

Joseph Conrad

This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak.

Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Sherill Baker

We just tried to be the aggressor. We were trying to get some steals to set up our scoring.

Jesse Jackson

I had to steal to survive.

Pablo Picasso

If there is something to steal, I steal it.

Barbara Corcoran

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

Leonard Bernstein

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

Jean Harlow

Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

Kaley Cuoco

As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

Thomas Wolfe

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

George S. Patton

Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.

Jonathan Ive

There are a thousand no's for every yes.

Allen Moore

It was something I had done a thousand times,

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.