Quotes About Being An Attorney

#1. My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney.

Ryan Seacrest

#2. Maybe when I'm done being an attorney general I'll go out and do something that will really benefit people's lives and become a USANA distributor.

Mark Shurtleff

#3. You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

Joseph O'Neill

#4. For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

David Foster Wallace

#5. You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

Charles Soule

#6. Your Honor, I am in a difficult position. The news media has already executed me and buried me ... If anyone is hypnotized, the people are hypnotized by the lies being told to them ... There is no attorney in the world who can represent me as a person. I have to do it myself.

Charles Manson

#7. Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.

William Feather

#8. Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

Annette Bening

#9. Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

Florynce Kennedy

#10. When I was in college, I thought about becoming an attorney. But I wasn't smart enough; I hate being cooped up indoors; and I'm too nice a guy.

Arnold Palmer

#11. I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.

Eric Holder

#12. The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

Richard Schmid

#13. Are you saying that you need an attorney? For what? As far as I know, being a dick isn't against the law in any country.

Elle Lothlorien

#14. Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.

Patricia Briggs

#15. I'm an appellate criminal defense attorney. I'm used to losing.

Vanessa Place

#16. He dreamed of being director of the FBI instead of attorney general. Considering some of the unsavory characters who had held the latter post, Milo didn't have the credentials for it.

Dean Koontz