Edward Bennett Williams Quotes

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

Edward Bennett Williams

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• Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Love
  • Why
  • Television

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Great
  • Sport
  • Sounds

• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Job
  • Never
  • Finish

• The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Know
  • Slow

• Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feet

• In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Live
  • Done
  • Help

• You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • You
  • Healthy
  • Diet

• I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Love

• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humor
  • Laughter
  • Days

• I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Year
  • Champion

• I'm tired of being considered property.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Tired
  • Being
  • Property

• Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • Physics
  • Economists

• Why do predictions of the Death of the West not belong on the same shelf as the predictions of 'nuclear winter' and 'global warming'? Answer: the Death of the West is not a prediction of what is going to happen, it is a depiction of what is happening now.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • Death
  • Winter

• Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, 'I quickly moved on to...the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)

  

  Edward VIII
  • King

• Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Death

• You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I'll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That's what a contingent-fee lawyer does.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Lawyer
  • Motivated
  • Recovery

• There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life's challenges.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Country

• There is something f-king unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Love

• When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Work
  • Free
  • Resume

• The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Intelligent

• You must relate athletic experiences to life.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • Life

• They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

  

  Edward Bennett Williams
  • Lawyer