Top 100 Paperwork's Quotes
#1. Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.
Connie Willis
#2. It's like the fellah in the lavatory said, No job's over 'til the paperwork's done.
Patrick Taylor
#3. It wasn't her dream job, but she did quite enjoy the satisfaction of transforming a messy pile of paperwork into neat rows of figures.
Liane Moriarty
#4. You know, I could fire you. I could even arrange to get you killed. Or kill you myself. (Joe)
Ooo, big scary threat. That might hold water if it wasn't for the fact that I know how much you hate paperwork. (Tee)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
Leslie Grimutter
#6. I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.
Natalie Cole
#8. I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
Lee Child
#9. Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.
Gretchen Rubin
#10. But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.
Adriana Trigiani
#11. I like problem solving. I like taking a crisis, breaking it into manageable pieces, and finding a solution. I don't like the minutiae. I don't like paperwork." "You
Ilona Andrews
#12. He quite liked the wizards. They didn't commit crimes. Not Vimes's type of crimes, anyway. The occult wasn't Vimes's beat. The wizards might well mess up the very fabric of time and space but they didn't lead to paperwork, and that was fine by Vimes. There
Terry Pratchett
#13. English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
Maureen Johnson
#14. So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.
Monica Lewinsky
#15. Peggy snorted. Zombies rise and we're still doing paperwork.
Rhiannon Frater
#16. When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!
David Twohy
#17. We routinely deport hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens every year whose sole offense is that they overstayed a visa or came without the right paperwork - but people who were involved in crimes against humanity get to stay?
Jodi Picoult
#18. Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter.
Kelly Corrigan
#19. The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U.S. public schools cost less than $20,000 ... no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents.
William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield
#20. More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators.
Christopher Bond
#21. For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring.
Crystal Bowersox
#22. I'd signed six things and my stack wasn't getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.
Ilona Andrews
#23. ...no elves or CPAs or other mythological creatures appeared to do my paperwork in the interim
Mira Grant
#24. I refuse to confirm or deny anything about any deal to purchase an American NHL franchise and move it to Canada until I've completed all of the paperwork and the deal is closed.
Jim Balsillie
#25. Adam didn't need his father to go to jail. He had merely needed someone outside the situation to look at it and confirm that yes, a crime had been committed. Adam had not invented it, spurred it, deserved it. It said so on the court paperwork. Robert Parrish, guilty. Adam Parrish, free.
Maggie Stiefvater
#26. And next thing you know, six of my best apprentices get purged for minor paperwork discrepancies and perhaps an unreported cock or two.
Kameron Hurley
#27. President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it's not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He filed the paperwork, redesigned his website, and printed another fake birth certificate.
Craig Ferguson
#28. It seems sort of unnecessary to prolong my life but I guess they can't just let me die. I'm sure there would be paperwork.
Kimberly Russell
#29. I'm going to shoot somebody," Maddie said.
"Sawyer hates when people do that. It's a whole bunch of paperwork.
Jill Shalvis
#30. Oh, fuck the paperwork. The words come from nowhere and on instinct I grab her and push her against the wall. Clasping both her hands, I pin them above her head so she can't touch me, and once she's secure, I twist my other hand in her hair while my lips seek and find hers.
E.L. James
#31. It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never.
Yann Martel
#32. We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.
Kay Hagan
#33. Let's have a look at your paperwork," I said as I glanced at the neatly stacked forms. "Mr. Crocker.
Denise Grover Swank
#34. Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.
John Sununu
#35. She's always telling us that the worst part of the spy life isn't the danger - it's the paperwork. After all, when you're on a plane home from Istanbul with a nuclear warhead in a hatbox, the last thing you want to do is write a report about it. So
Ally Carter
#36. In two days I'll fly to Georgia to sign estate paperwork and retrieve Father's remains, which are going straight down a toilet at the dodgiest petrol station I can find.
Wendy Higgins
#37. My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork in.
Mike Vogel
#38. I'll take him to the hospital " Bernardo said "but what do we put on the paperwork "
"Tell them it was a lover's quarrel " Olaf said.
"Over my dead body " I said.
"Eventually " he said.
"Don't be a sick fuck Olaf " I said.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#39. Rose scowled. 'I should be the one staying. I should be Jill's roommate. No offense, Sydney. We need you for the paperwork, but I'm the one who's gotta kick anyone's ass who gives Jill trouble.
Richelle Mead
#41. We were unable to obtain any lesbians, Pomeroy says, as though perhaps they hadn't been in season, or his paperwork wasn't in order.)
Mary Roach
#43. Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.
Robert H. Meltzer
#44. I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.
Gerhard Richter
#45. I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
Malcolm Gladwell
#46. You're ... a demon hunter?'
'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.
Maureen Johnson
#47. It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Frank Zappa
#48. We've got gravity licked but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Werner Von Braun
#49. The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#50. I think so many of our educators, when they hear about these programs coming from the federal government, they're just thinking, 'Uh, that's another book of paperwork that I'm going to have to do,' and teachers are so weighed down with that.
Marsha Blackburn
#51. The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.
Tom Clancy
#52. Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.
Fred Saberhagen
#53. Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#54. I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#55. in terms of sin, you're in the majors, and she hasn't even filled out her Little League paperwork yet." "I'll
Abigail Barnette
#56. If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.
Rick Riordan
#58. Paperwork is a creation of the modern world. Do you think they had paperwork four hundred years ago - no, all they had was love & witnesses.
Nalini Singh
#59. Marriage is when two people love each other so much that they promise that if they ever, ever stop they'll fill out tons of paperwork.
Eugene Mirman
#60. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork
Pearl Bailey
#61. No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.
Bill Gates
#62. He had committed hanky-panky with paperwork, and if something in the System is committed to paper, it becomes transubstantiated into a Sacred Relic. To
Jeff Lindsay
#63. Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status
Laurence J. Peter
#64. I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
#65. 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
#66. We buy houses for cash and cut the hassle of paperwork. For all types of houses in San Antonio, we have mouthwatering deals.
David
#67. When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane.
Allison Tolman
#68. I spent the rest of the workday on routine paperwork, snarling at misplaced files and seething at the stupidity of everyone else's report writing
when did Grammar die?
Jeff Lindsay
#69. In a couple of days after our arrival, it already became clear that our things were lost forever and would never be found. They put in the paperwork that Emirates Airlines had lost it, although we knew for sure it was all stolen by those girls in the airport of our first departure.
Sahara Sanders
#70. Why bother getting married, going through all the pomp and pageantry, if you didn't think it was going to last? It was far easier to live in sin and not have to deal with the paperwork.
Emma Straub
#72. I hate paperwork," announced Andy, looking up from his desk. "How is it that we have a form for 'you got a gingerbread house dropped on your head'? How do we have a job where that's something you'd need a form for?" "There's
Seanan McGuire
#73. It is well known that any drive to reduce paperwork only results in extra paperwork
Terry Pratchett
#74. Paperwork is the religion of the Civil Service. I can just imagine Sir Humphrey Appleby on his deathbed, surround by wills and insurance claim forms, looking up and saying, 'I cannot go yet, God, I haven't done the paperwork.
Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay
#75. More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us. Of course we are the ones who have to do the paperwork.
M.V. Carey
#76. Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Investing capital in the government creates more bureaucracy, more paperwork and inefficiency.
Michael Ramirez
#78. Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.
John Stossel
#79. You don't have paperwork," Savitri said. "You give it all to me." "Is it done?" I asked. "As far as you know, yes," Savitri said.
John Scalzi
#80. Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.
Joe Orton
#81. Make me, snow-bitch," she said. "Please don't make her," said Andy. "We'll just wind up with two more hours of paperwork if Henry assaults a teammate.
Seanan McGuire
#82. Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.
Michael K. Simpson
#83. that's the thing about urgent paperwork: the longer you leave it the less urgent it becomes.
Philip Kerr
#84. For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
Tony Abbott
#85. I went down for a week with the Houston Marshals. I didn't know that they hated paperwork as much as I hated it. They loathe it, man. They want to be in their cars catching the bad guys. They don't want to be filling out paperwork about the bad guys, you know, and the ones they've caught.
Kelli Giddish
#86. Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.
Scott Simon
#87. Having spent time in Hell, he knew that government paperwork was the closest mankind had ever come to achieving true soul-crushing misery.
Larry Correia
#88. Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.
Andy Sawford
#89. Here all of nature was captured, labeled, arranged according to a logic that seemed as timeless as if ordered by God, perhaps a God who had mislaid the original paperwork on the Creation and had requested the Field Museum staff to help him out and keep track of it all.
Audrey Niffenegger
#90. Paperwork wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for all the paper. And the work.
Darynda Jones
#91. The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to.
Randall Munroe
#92. with his paperwork in order, he could now turn to more pressing issues: killing Hells Angels.
Charles Falco
#93. OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September.
Estelle Morris
#95. Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
Karen Mills
#96. Desperately looking for a vital but lost bit of paperwork or just frantically masturbating to the Eroica symphony.
David Mitchell
#97. all paperwork is, pardon my language, Ms Li, pestilential putrefaction designed to confound the real work of society in a quagmire of bullshit?
Kate Griffin
#98. A change in paperwork [birth certificate] can't erase words stamped on the human heart.
Charles Martin
#99. Door and she starts on the EEOC paperwork. Frankly, she's asking for far less than
Nicholas Sparks
#100. The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".
David Platt
