Bum Rap Quotes

“T-shirt with the saying “I May Be Old, but I Got to See All the Cool Bands.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“We keep looking for justice, but it’s nothing but stormy nights and dark alleys out there.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“A lawyer who’s afraid of jail is like a surgeon who’s afraid of blood.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“Men act as if we just crawled from the swamp, our webbed feet dripping brackish water as we waddle ashore, seeking to mate with a female or, lacking that, a warm patch of mud.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“I could be wrong, but she seemed to be one of those anti-gluten, pro-yoga, organic wine bar, Generation-Y echo boomers. A Gwyneth Paltrow type who would name her first daughter Persimmon or whatever.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“smoking”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“These days, I try to act with integrity, but I’m a trial lawyer, damn it. In the legal system, not everything is black-and-white. I make my living in the gray.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“Forty-eight, okay? I don’t put my teeth in a jar and I still drive at night.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“As a lawyer, I break as few rules as possible, and just as in football, I play the game without fear. My college coach, Joe Paterno at Penn State, once told me to stop thinking so much. “Buckle your chin strap and hit somebody. Play fast and hard, and something good will happen. Don’t be afraid to lose.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“movement from inside, the sound of”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“party. I’m long gone from that scene.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“Society’s rules don’t always work. They’re limited by human frailty.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“Sometimes the truth will not set you free. Sometimes it will send you away for life.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“but I’m a trial lawyer, damn it. In the legal system, not everything is black-and-white. I make my living in the gray.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“I have a confession to make.
I hate voir dire.
I despise prying into other people's lives because I wouldn't want them prying into mine.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“the question falls within the penumbra of the detective’s expertise.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“John D. MacDonald, my favorite Florida writer—yeah, I read a bit—once began a book: “There are no hundred percent heroes.” If you ask my customers, they’d probably give me 51 percent. MacDonald also wrote, “If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.” Well, I’m tired of holding a pair of deuces or a busted flush. Tired of the grind. Tired of losing. Which is why on this sweaty July day with a sky as gray as an angry ocean, I needed an innocent client.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“Always clear your mind after a bad play. Learn from your mistakes, but don’t dwell on them.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“When there’s a dead body in the room, you never, ever answer cops’ questions without your lawyer present. Which is to say, your lawyer answers the questions by saying, “We have nothing to say at this time.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“A shark without teeth is just a mermaid.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“Shakespeare said only our bad deeds live after us,” Victoria, the smart one, said. “The good is oft interred with their bones.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“Yogi Berra reportedly said, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humility.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“thought then, an itchy little one in the back of my brain, as scary as the pop when a ligament tears. Why isn’t Victoria Lord my partner . . . in law and in life? -10- True”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“mouthpiece”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“jurors can’t help themselves. They’re swayed by their life experiences as much as the evidence and the law. Still, with all my bellyaching, here’s the strange thing. Juries usually get it right!”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“She had tried running away from her problems but now knew she would have to face them.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“Distance runners are their own breed. Skinny. Self-sufficient. Patient. Able to endure and conquer pain. Often loners,”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“Add that to love, Mr. Lassiter. That’s what we all need. Love and loyalty.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“subtlety sometimes eludes me. Why not just hit the nail on the head?”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“Beatles. “All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap