Clerks Quotes

• 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.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Bookstore
  • Clerks
  • Credit Card

• I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

  

  Weegee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Helping
  • Clerks

• 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.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Pockets
  • Clerks

• 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 in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

  

  William Christopher Handy
  • House
  • Eye
  • Longing

• One of the things that drives me batty is people who think they're court watchers, who say, "Oh, Clarence Thomas. You know, his clerks do all the work for him. You know, he doesn't deserve to be there, and has never done anything."

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

  

  William Cowper
  • Preaching
  • Sparks
  • Scarce

• I live right next to a grocery store and I don't know if it's the bachelor in me, but I just go in and shop for what I need for the day. I'm an idiot because I don't shop for the whole week. The check out clerks always crack jokes about the fact that I'm in there sometimes twice a day.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Sometimes
  • Week
  • Jokes

• Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never matched very effectively the percentages of law graduates out of graduating classes. We have far more than we ever did before and it's continued to grow, but it isn't a nice match yet.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Long
  • Nice
  • Class

• Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Justice
  • Decision
  • Application

• I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.

  

  Nikolai II Aleksandrovich
  • Rule
  • Russia
  • Clerks

• The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

  

  David Lloyd
  • People
  • Pride
  • Wealth

• 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 walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Revenge

• 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. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Teacher
  • Library
  • Motivated

• Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.

  

  Catherine Crook de Camp
  • Dream
  • President
  • Fool

• For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge. It is a mighty low executive who cannot hire several people with command of more knowledge than he has himself.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Men
  • Grace
  • Clerks