Court Quotes
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The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the Supreme Court already has based two rulings on it.
Alan Alda
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I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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We are disappointed that the court has taken an unduly narrow view of its power and obligation to decide cases that come before it, ... Because the science is clear that global warming poses a real and inevitable environmental threat with grave human consequences, we will appeal this decision and continue to work on other fronts to demand action on this critical problem.
Eliot Spitzer
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I believe Chairman Cummings will institute the process of subpoenaing, chairman Cummings is conferring with other members of House Oversight Committee right now, but so far I believe the overwhelming consensus is we should move forward with a subpoena.
Steve Lynch Autograph
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The ball is entirely in his court. We really have no knowledge of where he is with the project, other than what we read in the papers.
Dan Devine
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On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.
Dahlia Lithwick
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I try to bring a physical presence to the court. I want to be someone who is not going to be pushed around. That's something I don't get to do it a lot on the football field.
Kevin Moore Chroma Key
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Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?
William Shakespeare
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For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
William Gurnall
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Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never matched very effectively the percentages of law graduates out of graduating classes. We have far more than we ever did before and it's continued to grow, but it isn't a nice match yet.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.
Adolf Hitler
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Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.
William Rehnquist
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Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.
Carolyn Maloney
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I have much less confidence on the greens than I do on the court. Everybody asks like if putting is like shooting free throws. Like that six-footer for par or something like that. It has a very similar kind of mindset.
Stephen Curry
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It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.
George Clooney
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In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.
Roger Federer
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Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.
Erica Jong
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The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.
William O. Douglas
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When you go out on the court whether it be for the championship or just a scrimmage, have confidence that your abilities and what you've learned in your drills are better than your opponent's. This does not mean you should disregard your opponent. Before taking the court for any game, you should do a lot of thinking about what you have to do to beat your opponent and what he must or can do to beat you.
Bob Pettit
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Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
Serena Williams
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I have a wonderful white coat I can wear on the court and also in New York for those rainy days...its lady-like and goes perfect with my personality.
Serena Williams
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Clarence Thomas, a man of no known intellect, did NOT have to be on the Court; spineless senators put him there.
Barry W. Lynn
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We're not conceding anything. In fact, I think the court of appeals would render in our favor.
Gary Young Pavement
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Well, Margaret Court was the first one, first professional woman - or maybe man - to actually take it into the gyms. She worked out on her body, she was very strong, very fast on the court.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley