No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants. — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful… — Tom Wolfe 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
A young lady went into a bookstore and asked the clerk for Irving Stone's book, "Immoral Wife." The title is "Immortal Wife,"… — James Keller Copy Share Image
Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I… — Anupam Kher Copy Share Image
Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship… — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
With Congress and the S.E.C. so heavily peopled by lawyers, and with lawyers having been so heavily involved in drafting financial disclosure… — Charlie Munger 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
Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place… — Cliff Sloan Copy Share Image
Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he… — Dale Carnegie 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
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Don’t worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. That’s all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasn’t it?” “No,” I… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image