Clerks Quotes

• 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

  Cracks, Needs, Next

  16 Copy quote

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

  Nicholas II of Russia

  Russia, Bureaucracy, Thousand

  17 Copy quote

• Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

  Peter Drucker

  Expectations, Needs, Employment

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in Turbulent Times”, p.25, Routledge

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

  Kevin Smith

  Cheating, Work, Women

  FaceBook post by Kevin Smith from Nov 28, 2011

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Garden, Blessing

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.115, VM eBooks

  215 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not even supposed to be here today.

  Kevin Smith

  Today, Supposed To Be

  "Clerks". www.imdb.com. 1994.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Hands, Bookstores, Cards

  7 Copy quote

• 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 specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

  Robert Mueller

  September 11, Agents, Care

  12 Copy quote

• The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

  Gore Vidal

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Important

  15 Copy quote

• Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Queens, Wall, College

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.563, Open Road Media

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Mother, Father, School

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  Eye, Names, House

  10 Copy quote

• It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fog, Bankers, Banking

  17 Copy quote

• You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Thinking, Doctors, Black

  8 Copy quote

• I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

  Elena Kagan

  Thinking, Justice, Nine

  9 Copy quote

• Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Palaces, Endless, Mock

  8 Copy quote

• We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

  Gore Vidal

  Kings, Artist, Boys

  14 Copy quote

• 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 be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

  Christopher Meloni

  Dog, Vegas, Blue

  84 Copy quote

• Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.

  Kevin Smith

  Artist, Trying, Advancement

  49 Copy quote

• 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, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Morning, Past

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Phyllis Diller

  Husband, Gun, Want

  62 Copy quote

• 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

  Mom, Dad, Years

  4 Copy quote

• [The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both of us on drugs, looking down at a patient with a knife sticking up out of his face. 'What seems to be the trouble?' he asked.

  Denis Johnson

  Doctors, Knives, Drug

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.42, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Loneliness, Night, Feeling Lonely

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 Jim, I cannot sail." "Then down with the galley slaves you go." "But Captain Jim, I cannot row." "Then you must be the pirate's clerk." "But Captain Jim, I cannot work.

  Shel Silverstein

  Pirate, Swim, Captains

  5 Copy quote