Clerk Quotes

78 quotes by 73 authors

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. — Bertolt Brecht
All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of… — Ludwig von Mises
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a… — Alexander Pope
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. — 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… — Augustus De Morgan
Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate… — Thomas Pynchon
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… — Ramsey Campbell
I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad… — Anupam Kher
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering… — Albert Einstein
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… — Ulysses S. Grant
You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store,… — Joycelyn Elders
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,… — Howard Schultz
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money… — William Christopher Handy
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… — A J P Taylor
If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk. — Leon Botstein
James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful ... — Albert Einstein
Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None of your meek,… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
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… — Zach Galifianakis
A young lady went into a bookstore and asked the clerk for Irving Stone's book, "Immoral Wife." The title is "Immortal Wife," the clerk replied.… — James Keller
You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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