Law Clerk Quotes

#1. I had the good fortune to begin my legal career as a law clerk for a judge who really epitomized open-mindedness and fairness. He read the record in detail in every single case that came before me; he insisted on scrupulously following precedents.

Samuel Alito

#2. There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

Cliff Sloan

#3. What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.

Ted Cruz

#4. We have never had a president of the United States or a nominee of a major party who was a Supreme Court law clerk.

Jeffrey Toobin

#5. It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

Dale Carnegie

#6. The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.

James Clerk Maxwell

#7. Everyone thinks I like to sleep. It's not that I like to sleep, it's that I don't like to get up! There is a difference.

JC Chasez

#8. I've never had my heart broken. And I don't want to have my heart broken. I'm afraid of it. Even when I break someone else's heart, I'm really upset about it. And I'm not even feeling half of what they are ...

Ashley Benson

#9. I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight.

Michael Spinks

#10. After law school, I had the opportunity to clerk for a tremendous judge, Leonard I. Garth, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, the court to which I was appointed in 1990.

Samuel Alito

#11. I believe everyone should have the freedom to represent what they believe-in in their own way.

Nia Long

#12. We define thermodynamics ... as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation as to the molecular constitution.

James Clerk Maxwell

#13. I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.

Ted Lindsay

#14. Failure is a fatality that carves the road to success.

Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

#15. The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things ... ; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

Xenophanes

#16. Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and by the great effect heat has in dilating them, but by the uniformity and simplicity of the laws which regulate these changes.

James Clerk Maxwell

#17. The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.

Paul Simon

#18. Most people were more willing to talk about fighting than to do it, especially against soldiers.

Robert Jordan

#19. It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.

James Clerk Maxwell

#20. Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.

Francis Chan

#21. The law is like one of those sci-fi creatures that keeps growing limbs and spawning replicas of itself until they take over the entire world.

Melody A. Kramer

#22. If you don't fit into the system, the system makes life hell.

David Mitchell

#23. Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

Roger Scruton

#24. The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

James Clerk Maxwell

#25. There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#26. I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.

John Belushi

#27. Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.

Tullian Tchividjian