Top 1200 Grand Jury Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Honestly so much money gets taken for taxes from contest winnings that you have to be smart with it. People think that because I won 200 grand, I actually got 200 grand, but a big chunk of that gets taken out. You have to be very smart with your money.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

I think the ideal job in that alternative universe would be to lead whitewater rafting trips through the Grand Canyon. So maybe I'd be a guy leading whitewater rafting trips at the Grand Canyon. Or maybe a professional skydiver.

The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

Just take the lack of presence of F1 in the United States. In theory - and logically - you would have an East Coast Grand Prix, a West Coast Grand Prix, and I think you should have a street race in Detroit - it is still the motor capital of the US. You stay in the US for four weeks and could have two to three races, certainly two.

One of my favorite scenes in Fellini is the ecclesiastical fashion show in Roma, and the end of 8 ½, when all the characters in the life of Guido, Marcello Mastroianni, get together and do this grand procession. That was on my mind, especially at the 45th anniversary, when all those characters in Valentino's life returned to Rome. I kept watching that and saying, if only we can arrange that grand procession at the end...and it kind of happened.

If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.

Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

There was years when my father didn't even make a hundred grand - or barely made a hundred grand - and sure, we had a maid, but she only came twice a week. What do you think happened the other five days? You think those dishes washed themselves? You think those clothes got themselves in the hamper?

We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.

There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.

My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that any artist who wants to create a grand narrative on a grand scale has to sort of parse out some of the smaller aspects of painting or the more mundane aspects of painting to others.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

The jury is out as to whether the Afghans are up to the task of protecting their people.

Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

The jury is still out on whether humans are causing climate change.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

You're a grand old flag! You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land I love, The home of the free and the brave. Ev'ry heart beats true 'Neath the Red, White and Blue,' Where there's never a boast or brag. But should auld acquaintance be forgot, Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

I have never served on a jury because MPs were exempted - or banned, I think.

Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.

Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'

I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!

I always wait until a jury has spoken before I anticipate what they will do.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

The main event is freedom. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience. It might be a good idea to retire, since as this delusion of an economy progresses, it seems that if you make ten grand a year or a hundred grand a year, there's absolutely no difference.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer's remorse.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.