Bill Veeck Quotes

Going through a long legal battle is not what you sign up for as a fighter.

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

The dispute is still before the judge.

This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.

Where there is a will there's a law suit.

A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.

I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

One lawyer will make work for another.

The news changes every day. So it's not like being involved in any litigation that goes on for four years, and the trial lasts three months.

It almost seems I was writing two separate books, the first one about the time before I went on the court and the second one about the many, many terms I was on the court.

If you can imagine what it's like to launch a business in the middle of a lawsuit - it's not an easy thing.