Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Brennan

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

Salvador Dali

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.

William Cowper

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

Rick Warren

I hope that the community will cooperate and not hassle the clerks with what they have to do. It's a good store and serves a good need to the community.

Kevin Smith

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.

Karl Kraus

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

Albert Einstein

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

John Luke

Front desk clerks at Hilton are generally empowered to listen to any reasonable request. We probably wouldn't treat you to a $500 dinner for two, but if you're walked from the New York Hilton and Towers, we might take you over in our limo to a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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

Satchel Paige

I used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn't know what to do. But when I put that ballsuit on, I don't know where I got the spark to save my life.

Ben Stein

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Miranda Cosgrove

Sparks fly, it's like electricity...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

Plato

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

Immanuel Kant

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

Ray Henderson

It was big; we were preaching it all week that we wanted the shutout, ... so we went out and we did what we had to do.

Matt McCool

That's what we've been preaching all year: When the other team does something positive, we've got to do something." ()

Tom Lehrer

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.