Quotes About Courtrooms

#1. His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.

Philip Russell

#2. Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

Irving R. Kaufman

#3. The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible.

Warren E. Burger

#4. The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.

Rhea Perlman

#5. Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse ... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#6. Back then, as now, narratives shaped outcomes in courtrooms.

Barry Siegel

#7. 'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.

Aaron Sorkin

#8. When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

Woody Harrelson

#11. The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

Tammy Faye Bakker

#12. I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.

Ben Hecht

#13. Studying the rule of law won't make a great litigator. It is the act of trying cases in real courtrooms with real plaintiffs and defendants and judges and juries, week after week and year after year that develops lawyers into top trial attorneys.

Marian Deegan

#14. You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

Pascal Bruckner

#15. To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.

Jacque Fresco

#16. Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

Svante Arrhenius

#17. If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

Ron Howard

#18. Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

Tony Robbins

#19. 'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.

Kassie DePaiva

#20. Harder yet to get back up without tripping and falling all over again.

Ellen Hopkins

#21. I'll fight dragons, just like any knight for his lady. I'll prove myself. You'll be proud of me.

L.J.Smith

#22. Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you.

Richard Hatch

#23. Knowledge is a funny thing, Auron. The more of it that's in your head, the more your head can hold. It breeds on its own. You never know what the next bit of reading is going to do, what it's going to meet up with in your head and mate.

E.E. Knight

#24. Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

Penelope Lively

#25. Abortion is a woman's right.

Roseanne Barr

#26. Any attorney with a conscience always speaks the truth. An attorney can and should practice law in a scrupulous manner, but some dishonest attorneys disregard ethical mandates in order to win. Unethical attorneys shape their clients stories, which is a fancy way of assisting them tell a fib.

Kilroy J. Oldster