Clerks Quotes - Page 8

• In the cold morning the rested street stands up
  To greet the clerk who saunters down the world.

  Allen Tate

  Morning, World, Cold

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.195, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Wallace Shawn

  Jobs, Thinking, Acting

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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• The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.

  Jose Saramago

  Senior, Morning, Mean

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 2), 1999.

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

  Karl Kraus

  Journalism, Shortage

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Men, Choices, Moral

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book II, ch. 5), 1688.

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