City Clerk Quotes

#1. The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had episodes of glory that made the career of Alexander the Great seem like a day in the life of a file clerk.

Mark Helprin

#2. I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.

Jim Yong Kim

#3. It's always helpful to remember that when perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun.

Brene Brown

#4. Bryant wanted to be outside digging up corpses and chasing (as much as his bad leg would allow) unscrupulous but fiendishly brilliant villains through the back alleys of the city. Instead he was meeting a clerk about forgotten bits of paperwork.

Christopher Fowler

#5. People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Edmund Burke

#6. I somewhat resist the whole gay rights-vampire rights metaphor because it is fraught with problems. I don't want to be seen as a gay man as a blood-sucking killer. I don't think it is the way to win hearts and minds.

Denis O'Hare

#7. I'm pretty boring.

Abigail Breslin

#8. Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.

Billy Campbell

#9. The room does not smell like apple. It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. The Back Row pays attention. Cutting dead frogs is cool.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#10. If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.

Janice Tanton

#11. All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

Rufus Wainwright

#12. Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.

Timothy Noah

#13. Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. Everyone, regardless of his or her decisions, deserves our kindness!

Neil L. Andersen