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I do not rule Russia. 10,000 clerks do.
I'm not even supposed to be here today.
I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.
There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.
Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.
One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.
I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.
I went to a 7-11 and asked for a 2x4 and a box of 3x5's. The clerk said, "ten-four."
It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.
In the cold morning the rested street stands up To greet the clerk who saunters down the world.
There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.
If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.
Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.
I hate smart sales clerks. I said to one, What do you have in lingerie? She says, More than you'll ever have!
Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.
Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
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 it better than I did.
dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.
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 a clerk.
I liked getting up at 4 in the morning, driving on the freeway, and going in and stocking shelves and laughing with the stock clerks.
I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.
Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
With me, as a town clerk or city manager, there are certain things that I'm supposed to do - if I don't do them, then I don't deserve to continue in this post.
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
The young people when I go to McDonald's, the Hispanic clerks will come by, 'Sheriff, can we have a picture?' over and over again. At least they want a picture with me.
When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.
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 moment in women's emancipation.
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 tells you they don't need your name and address.
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 things.
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.
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 what kind of gun?' 'No,' she replied. 'He doesn't even know I'm going to shoot him.
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 be embarassed by some supercilious male clerk in the bookstore.
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 what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk
The doctor gets you when you're born, The preacher, when you marry, And the lawyer lurks with costly clerks If too much on you carry. Professional men, they have no cares; Whatever happens, they get theirs.
After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. When they think of "X," it's on the way to the video store.