As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.

One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.

The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.

We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a young child was perceived as a lawyer who also happened to be a father.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.