Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

Pleasure is something you can easily lose the knack of, if you allow yourself to get out of practice.

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.