Nizer Quotes

#1. Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

Josh Peck

#2. Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Louis Nizer

#3. A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

Louis Nizer

#4. The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold On To It.

Spencer Johnson

#5. I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.

Danny Burstein

#6. I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

Geraldine Ferraro

#7. We either crucify or crown Jesus by our lives.

J. Vernon McGee

#8. We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Louis Nizer

#9. A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.

Louis Nizer

#10. A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

Louis Nizer

#11. Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

Louis Nizer

#12. Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

Louis Nizer

#13. True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

Louis Nizer

#14. The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

Louis Nizer

#15. Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.

Louis Nizer

#16. Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

Louis Nizer

#17. God was beyond faithful, always, all the time.

Karen Kingsbury

#18. The problem is we don't understand the problem.

Paul MacCready

#19. Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

Louis Nizer

#20. Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

Louis Nizer

#21. A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Louis Nizer

#22. Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Louis Nizer

#23. When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Louis Nizer

#24. In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Louis Nizer

#25. People say they wish they were Michael Jordan. OK, do it for a year. Do it for two years. Do it for five years. When you get past the fun part, then go do the part where you get into cities at three a.m. and you have fifteen people waiting for autographs when you're as tired as hell.

Michael Jordan

#26. The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

George Sand

#27. I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

Louis Nizer

#28. A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

Louis Nizer

#29. A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Louis Nizer

#30. Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men.

Archilochus

#31. How happy he, who free from care
The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breathes his native air,
In his own grounds

Alexander Pope