Henry Wigmore Quotes

#1. Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.

John Henry Wigmore

#2. Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.

Alan Bradley

#3. Some people just want to be part of the story, even if it's a story that's completely fabricated.

Paula Stokes

#4. Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.

A-Trak

#5. Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.

John Henry Wigmore

#6. The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.

John Henry Wigmore

#7. Stars don't have their own light to glint. It is supplied by sun by burning self. One endures pain for others to survive.

Sadashivan Nair

#8. I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

Chris Evans

#9. Thinke of ease, but worke on.

George Herbert

#10. We don't want to have a child that has many illnesses, and that will pass away after a few months. A child must have a good environment, and parents that will take care of it.
[...] It [a Kurdish state] must be a part of stability in this area.

Fuad Hussein

#11. I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

Bella Thorne

#12. Naomi looks at me, her orange-brown eyes rimmed in dark shadow flecked with silver sparkles. All of that darkness around the pop of color in her irises makes them seem huge, like two sunsets floating in a night sky. I smirk again. There I go getting all poetic; good for me.

C.M. Stunich

#13. Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

John Henry Wigmore

#14. The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.

Raymond Chandler

#15. I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school ... everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in handy ... And being an actor, I've been able to use it quite a bit.

Tom Wlaschiha

#16. I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.

Michael Morpurgo

#17. Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none is more shortsighted, none more dangerous, than the proposal to abolish trial by jury.

John Henry Wigmore