#lawyers

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things. ↗

— Steve Case

#brothers #building #expectation #fascinated #father

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#bookstore #just #lawyers #money #were

The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#did #everything #experience #honed #i

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#careers #doctors #enough #lady #lawyers

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big. ↗

— David Crosby

#big #companies #definitely #get #lawyers

That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts. ↗

— John Fund

#courts #decision #lawyers #over #taken

The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police. ↗

— Jan Neruda

#police #men

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#build #case #complaints #divorce #how

She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money. ↗

— Dennis Kozlowski

#am #i #i am #lawyers #life

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

#around #case #closer #each #fixed