Court Quotes

• Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Speak
  • Behinds
  • Bed

• 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
  • Woman
  • Professional
  • Worked Out

• This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial. But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this 'kangaroo court'.

  

  Ahmad Sa'adat
  • Justice
  • Court
  • Accusations

• We're not conceding anything. In fact, I think the court of appeals would render in our favor.

  

  Gary Young Pavement
  • Court
  • Appeals
  • Render

• Clarence Thomas, a man of no known intellect, did NOT have to be on the Court; spineless senators put him there.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Intellect
  • Court
  • Senators

• 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
  • Long
  • Nice
  • Class

• As long as I'm able to walk, and run up and down the court, I'm going to definitely try to give it all I got. I'll be 100 percent real soon.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Give
  • Walk
  • Court

• If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Court

• I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Great
  • Justice
  • Wonder

• 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
  • Animal
  • Form
  • Bears

• But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Virtue
  • Shapes

• If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Life
  • Playing
  • Court

• If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Giving
  • Opinion
  • Criticism

• Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Book
  • Court
  • Inexplicable

• Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged end up in court.

  

  Adam Haslett
  • Court
  • Deranged
  • Luckless

• This is an illegal court and I won't attend it.

  

  Ahmad Sa'adat
  • Court
  • Illegal
  • Attend

• To me, when guys beat you down the court, that's unacceptable. Randle's effort and energy, he's athletic and brings energy, certainly busted it open in that stretch.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Guys
  • Beat
  • Unacceptable

• 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
  • Moments
  • Luck
  • Hours

• There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Country
  • Quality
  • Christendom

• I'm not allergic to fashion. I'm just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they're going to a funeral or to court.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Fashion
  • Court
  • Allergic

• Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Persons
  • Rule
  • Court

• Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Important
  • Decision
  • Gender

• To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Crime
  • Court
  • Visit

• The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

  

  William Weld
  • Government
  • Dangerous
  • Branches

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