Clerk Quotes

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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand. — Miguel de Cervantes
Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you… — Daniel Goleman
The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had episodes of glory… — Mark Helprin
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… — Robert Muller
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to… — Ludwig von Mises
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… — Leon M. Lederman
If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal… — Henry David Thoreau
This woman goes into a gun shop and says, 'I want to buy a gun for my husband.' The clerk says, 'Did he tell you… — Phyllis Diller
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be… — W. Somerset Maugham
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk! — John Heywood
I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5,… — Douglas Preston
I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company,… — Denis Fahey
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and… — Martin Lewis Perl
I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling… — Glen Mazzara
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima,… — John Hersey
Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can… — Michel Gondry
I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk. — Elena Kagan
There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. — William Cowper
Tip to out-of-town visitors. If you buy something here in New York and you want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk… — David Letterman

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