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
I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of… — Denis Fahey Copy Share Image
I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a… — Glen Mazzara 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
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
My first decade of living in a metropolis was like, I was a people watcher. It meant the world to me to… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
I liked getting up at 4 in the morning, driving on the freeway, and going in and stocking shelves and laughing with… — Michelle Pfeiffer 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
[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the… — Denis Johnson 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
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. — William Cowper 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
When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly,… — Marguerite Porete Copy Share Image
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nature is located mainly in national parks, which are vast tracts of wilderness that have been set aside by the United States… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by… — Ludwig von Mises 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