Clerks famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks,
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.
-- Al Neuharth -
A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.
-- Albert Camus -
[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.
-- Augustus De Morgan -
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
-- Bertolt Brecht -
As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.
-- Brian Selznick -
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the ***** and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk
-- Chetan Bhagat -
There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and shooting convenience store clerks all 'create jobs'. So that claim misses the plot; it applies to all so is an argument in favor of none. Instead of an argument on the merits, it is an admission that one has no such arguments.
-- Chris Horner -
One of the things that drives me batty is people who think they're court watchers, who say, "Oh, Clarence Thomas. You know, his clerks do all the work for him. You know, he doesn't deserve to be there, and has never done anything."
-- Dahlia Lithwick -
My first decade of living in a metropolis was like, I was a people watcher. It meant the world to me to talk to strangers. I got excited about the fifth time I'd see the same person in the same bodega. I loved getting to know a certain clerk or barista. It took on a whole big meaning for me because of that atomization that suburban people do start to feel.
-- Debra Granik -
I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
-- Edward Abbey -
Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson -
I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.
-- Elena Kagan -
I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.
-- Eliza Dushku -
An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.
-- Fredric March -
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
-- Hortense Calisher -
Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.
-- Howard Schultz -
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
-- Ihara Saikaku -
I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.
-- Karl Kraus -
Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.
-- Kevin Smith -
If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.
-- Leon Botstein -
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles.
-- Leon M. Lederman -
Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly, And in this way, Love and Faith Make you surmount Reason, for They are the protectors of Reason's house.
-- Marguerite Porete -
It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want to look around and hope to see a book that will strike their fancy. And then, being bright enough not to trust the publisher's blurb, they will ask the book clerk the three questions: (1) What is it about? (2) Have you read it? (3) Was it any good?
-- Mary Ann Shaffer -
I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.
-- Nicholas II of Russia -
Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
-- Ouida -
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
-- Peter Drucker -
I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something wrong would not disgrace an Eastern European clerk.
-- Ramsey Campbell -
Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
-- Rick Bragg -
And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.
-- Robert Mueller -
Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be enhaunsed? Why are Astronomers so greatly advanced? Because that by number such things they find, which else would farre excell mans minde.
-- Robert Recorde -
A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.
-- Robin Sloan -
It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.
-- Rudolf Bing -
Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
-- Sam Walton -
I live right next to a grocery store and I don't know if it's the bachelor in me, but I just go in and shop for what I need for the day. I'm an idiot because I don't shop for the whole week. The check out clerks always crack jokes about the fact that I'm in there sometimes twice a day.
-- Sean William Scott -
The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
-- Seth Godin -
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
-- Sinclair Lewis -
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
-- Ulysses S. Grant -
Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.
-- W. H. Auden -
After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
-- Wallace Shawn -
There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
-- William Cowper -
Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.
-- William J. Brennan -
Did you ever wake up with an erection...and find yourself in a massage chair at Brookstone? And you yell to the sales clerk "I'll take it!"
-- Zach Galifianakis -
dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.
-- Jasmine Cresswell -
The young people when I go to McDonald's, the Hispanic clerks will come by, 'Sheriff, can we have a picture?' over and over again. At least they want a picture with me.
-- Joe Arpaio -
Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor -
I do not rule Russia. 10,000 clerks do.
-- Nicholas II of Russia
