Charles Dickens Quotes
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
Quotes to Explore
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As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
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I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
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Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.
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We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
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The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
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Minds ripen at very different ages.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
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Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me
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Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?
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The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.
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We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
