Clerk Quotes

78 Clerk quotes by 73 unique authors

It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want… — Mary Ann Shaffer
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford
Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or… — Elizabeth Strout
Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from… — Chetan Bhagat
Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers… — Elizabeth Zimmermann
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a… — Frank McCourt
He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she didn't have to… — Karen Marie Moning
Okay, outside," the clerk said. "Conversation outside. Bye! Have a nice night! — Maggie Stiefvater
Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And… — Arthur Miller
The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher.… — Seth Godin
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk,… — Charles Dickens
After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast… — Robin Sloan
A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time. — Robin Sloan
Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like… — Orhan Pamuk
An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk. — Fredric March
I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest… — Richard Armitage
The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer… — C S Forester
A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his checking account. — Bill Bryson
A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk. — Harry F Banks
Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a… — Jerome Roldan
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals… — JC Penney
Don't stand in Life's 'Waiting Room,'. slap that clerk till he gives you what you fuckin' want! — Unknown Author
The neighborhood grocery clerk asked for my picture. Does this mean I can no longer wear pajama bottoms when I grocery shop? — Carly Rae Jepsen
People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on… — Katharine Whitehorn
If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomesonly a hired man,… — Henry David Thoreau

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