Scott Turow Quotes

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

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• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • You
  • Me
  • Smile

• I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • She
  • Lost
  • Decision

• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Change
  • Imagination

• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Change
  • Yourself

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Teach

• If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

  

  Kajol
  • Me
  • Said
  • Salt

• Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Hope
  • Play
  • Finish

• My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Support
  • Right
  • Works

• If the law tries to legislate our 'yeses' and 'noes' it will produce 'the straitjacket generation' – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Law

• Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Eyes
  • Smile

• If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Done

• Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Freedom
  • Fighting
  • Serious

• It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Weird

• But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner in which the individual responds and adapts to the challenges that he meets in everyday life.

  

  Rene Dubos
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Challenges

• 'Don’t press her,' said Cooper. 'If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don’t insist on his saying it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Experience

• I never owned a suit until after the election. I got married in jeans and boots. My wife and I, when we went to prom, I was in a pair of jeans.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • Wife
  • Prom

• Natto, Japanese ferment bean paste, will never cross my lips again. Spam Musubi, on the other hand, is something I love. I used to have a roommate of Vietnamese descent, and he would eat it all the time. It looked gross, but I finally had it - wrapped in seaweed and rice - it was terrific.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Japanese

• A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.

  

  Joseph McCabe
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Act

• All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Law
  • Novels