The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in his mind before the first witness was called. It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who to intimidate; who to trust, who to flatter and court; who to challenge; when to underplay and exactly when to let out all the stops.

Dorothy Uhnak

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

Esther Williams

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city, that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population, that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out; and that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law. But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; that the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it. The law is only a memorandum.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

Jock Sturges

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Fred A. Allen

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Joseph E. Granville

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Arthur Erickson

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

Simone Weil

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Robert Louis Stevenson