Gavel To Gavel Quotes

#1. I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

Luanne Rice

#3. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.

Conan O'Brien

#4. You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.

Janet Jackson

#5. If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.

Fran Lebowitz

#6. The code of small towns is simple but encompassing: if many forms of craziness are allowed, many forms of cruelty are ignored. Piggy

John Irving

#7. The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

Robert A. Caro

#8. Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

Paul Watson

#9. If Big Data's two running stories have been surveillance and money, for the last three years I've been working on a third: the human story.

Christian Rudder

#10. Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.

Doug E. Fresh

#11. Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.

Lil' Wayne

#12. To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

Jim Ryun

#13. The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument ... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

Dan Quayle

#14. I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun.

Catherine Crier

#15. I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

Rider Strong

#16. Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.

Craig McDonald

#17. I just trust God. I don't worry about what tomorrow may bring because I know who's bringing it.

Tony Gaskins

#18. It's time to give the gavel back to God, we were never meant to be judges.

Evinda Lepins

#19. She was tired these days because she was having job trouble too; her trouble meant she did not know how she could be useful in her life. Dad's job trouble was he had too much to do with his life. Sometimes I just wanted them to even it out but I couldn't think of how.

Aimee Bender

#20. If I swung the gavel the way I swung that golf club, the nation would be in a helluva mess.

Tip O'Neill

#21. We fail because we give up, and we give up because we never had a plan in the first place

Robin Sieger

#22. Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

Jeff Lindsay

#23. Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#24. He's hard-core, but I think he's actually more of an actor.

Taylor Hanson

#25. From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being.

Brian Lamb

#26. John Boehner chose a huge gavel. I think somebody's compensating for his small government.

Stephen Colbert

#27. A woman's duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes ... to speak and act in defiance of convention.

Margaret Sanger