Clerk Quotes
78 Clerk quotes by 73 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
— John Heywood
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.
— Elena Kagan
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There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
— William Cowper
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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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It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.
— Rudolf Bing
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There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the…
— Cliff Sloan
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When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No…
— J. Cole
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I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in…
— Eliza Dushku
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People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to…
— Christopher Meloni
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My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.
— Michael Moore
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My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were…
— Marco Rubio
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My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and…
— Marco Rubio
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[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both…
— Denis Johnson
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Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain…
— Shel Silverstein
Who Wrote These Clerk Quotes
73 authors contributed a total of 78 Clerk Quotes, led by these top contributors: