Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'd like to have guys run the court with me. But everybody (on the team) gets along, everybody is friends. It's a good team that way. No one is jealous, no one argues. We come to practice every day and work hard.

I am disappointed that the court has overturned the defendants' convictions on the grounds there were errors in the jury selection process,

I am just elated that this part is over, and I feel the U.S. Supreme Court did justice in recognizing the feelings and the needs of people who have terminal illness, to be able to use that process in a compassionate and dignified manner.

Mark Johnson

We've suggested to the court that a sweeping big deal can be accomplished in a single sentence, that the size of the measure is not the only yardstick by which that question should be measured.

Antonin Scalia

If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.

Antonin Scalia

Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.

E. V. Lucas

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

Kevin Smith

We used full court man-to-man defense and was able to outscore them 18-6 in the fourth quarter. It was an awfully good game.

We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.

Allen West

We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.

Eldridge Cleaver

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

David Foster Wallace

I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.

Donella Meadows

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked

The fact that they played well and we weren't able to play at the level was something that happened on the court and didn't have anything to do with anything else.

What is there to be jubilant about? ... We have a Supreme Court that has been essentially lawless in so many respects for decades now, and a lot of work has to be done to restore it to its proper role.

Stephon Marbury

I was kind of tired tonight, but I play. When I get on the court that is all I do. I love basketball. Mentally, I just had to get my mind in another place.

I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really wanted to be - either a senator, or a Supreme Court Justice, and I always wanted to be a lawyer.

Robert Shapiro

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Just walking off the court there with a minute to go and everyone standing, it was awesome. Words can't express.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Jeff Adrien

Josh is kind of quiet. But what he does on the court is very loud.

Judge Moore doesn't have very large coattails. He went too far when he refused to obey the court order, and that was sort of a turning point and his popularity has been dropping ever since then.

Kenyon Martin

I take the responsibility of representing the Denver Nuggets very seriously and I truly hope Nuggets fans understand that. I support the team fully and can't wait to rejoin them on the court as soon as possible.

I think it's a little naive to think that the state Supreme Court isn't going to at least see this as a message from the Legislature.

I think it'll be nice because we get the courts all to ourselves. It's our show.

I think it is a very diverse court that represents the diversity of Florida.

Kim Clijsters

I think I stayed very focused and very patient throughout the whole match, ... Even when I was 4-1 up, I was playing really well at the start. I was moving around, just from side-to-side, opening up the court a lot.

He (Cooper) does maintain his innocence and will defend himself in court if indicted.

He kept the members of the court together, despite their many differences.

He is still there because he is exercising his right to due process in challenging his removal in the courts and that's why he hasn't been removed.

James Thurber

He is perceived to be a liability at this point, and it's not just what comes from this particular court case.

Sibel Edmonds

However, I keep reminding them that this issue is not a new issue that has come out for this election. This issue has been in the courts for two years and two months now.