Laggis Brothers Quotes & Sayings

The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery. — George Voinovich

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness. — Ben Aaronovitch

So defendants like Walter McMillian, even in counties that were 40 or 50 percent black, frequently found themselves staring at all-white juries, especially in death penalty cases. Then, in 1986, the Supreme Court ruled in Batson v. Kentucky that prosecutors could be challenged more directly about using peremptory strikes in a racially discriminatory manner, giving hope to black defendants - and forcing prosecutors to find more creative ways to exclude black jurors. — Bryan Stevenson

You know, one of the things that made me come here, was that I am frightfully afraid of being alone. The fear of the dark is only part of it. I wanted to break that fear in the middle, because I am afraid much of my existance is going to be more or less alone, and I might as well go into training for it. It comes on me at night mostly, in little waves of panic, that constrict something in my stomach. But don;t you think it is good to fight these things? Last night, some quite large animal came and sniffed under the door. I presume it was a coyote, though I do not know. The moon had not come up, and when I run outside there was nothing to be seen. But the main thing was that I was frightened, even though I knew it could be nothing but a coyote. Don't tell anyone I am afraid. I do not like to be suspected of being afraid. — John Steinbeck

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made. — Stanley Kubrick

It's times like this I am glad I don't look people in the eye. If I did, surely they would die on the spot from the contempt shooting out of mine. — Jodi Picoult

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you. — John Malkovich

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Call it not paranoia, but caution. — Laura Anne Gilman

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times. — Jim Leach

I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment. — Joshua Lederberg