Joe Jamail Quotes

What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.

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• I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Think

• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Racism

• Winning, you can overlook so many things.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Winning
  • Things

• No one wears high heels all day, every day.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • Day
  • Everyday

• As an offensive lineman, having spatial awareness is key: understanding where the quarterback is going to be and understanding what the defensive end might do depending on the play we're running.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Running
  • Understanding
  • End

• I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • Real
  • My Life

• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Public
  • Educate

• Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Like
  • Generation
  • Forest

• The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Political
  • Military

• I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Close

• She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • She

• As Duke Ellington once said, 'the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton.' ... About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business - well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Wife

• Indian, Indian what did you die for? Indian says, nothing at all.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Die

• The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Understanding
  • Fire
  • Abuse

• The Righteous Brothers started out in Orange County, California. It was about the whitest place in the country, but the black marines from the nearby base heard there were two guys singing rhythm and blues, so they came down to hear us. At the end of our songs they'd yell out, 'That's righteous, brother!' and that's how we got our name.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Country
  • Black
  • Singing

• Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love
  • Protect
  • Chosen

• It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Words
  • Party

• I throw/my head back,/& stare at the slowest lightning,/the stars.

  

  Eduardo C. Corral
  • Stars
  • Head
  • Lighting

• When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

  

  Anne-Marie Slaughter
  • Law

• Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists.

  

  Charles Foster Johnson
  • Lost
  • Moral
  • Media

• What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.

  

  Joe Jamail