No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I went to the store and bought eight apples; the clerk said, "Do you want these in a bag?" I said, "Oh,… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Okay, outside," the clerk said. "Conversation outside. Bye! Have a nice night! — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Tip to out-of-town visitors. If you buy something here in New York and you want to have it shipped home, be suspicious… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is… — Weegee Copy Share Image
Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the cold morning the rested street stands up To greet the clerk who saunters down the world. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to begin my legal career as a law clerk for a judge who really epitomized open-mindedness and… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
“You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
“Clerks really inspired me. I was like, “Wait a minute. You can write a whole movie that’s just talking and relationships and… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant,… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
Did you ever wake up with an erection...and find yourself in a massage chair at Brookstone? And you yell to the sales… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not… — Al Neuharth Copy Share Image
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
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