Top 30 Quotes About Filling Out Forms
#1. I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.
Stella Young
#2. My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
Graham Greene
#3. Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.
Mark Hamill
#4. I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex ... occasionally, stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls ...
Tom Waits
#6. Our financial system is a false one and a huge burden on the people . . . This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth." - Congressman Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Sr.
Eustace Mullins
#7. The rest of us learned the simple lesson - invaluable in a bureaucratic society - that there is no moral or practical obligation to tell the truth when filling in forms.
Auberon Waugh
#8. If she's not spoken for, and you come at her correctly, like a man, she'll get with you.
Tracy Morgan
#9. It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.
David First
#10. Most non-programmers don't think of plaintext like that. To them, text files feel like filling in tax forms for an angry robotic auditor that yells at them if they forget a single semicolon.
Robert Nystrom
#11. I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.
Jonathan Glazer
#12. I have lived in Toledo, Ohio, off and on throughout my entire life, and I have plenty of friends who are union members. Sometimes we agree politically and sometimes not, but it has never kept us from being friends.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#13. Persuasion" requires proof. It causes us to lead with process and facts instead of stories and knowledge. The lack of immediate relevance to participants feels like a waste of their time.
Kim Erwin
#14. though some gifted tailor had almost succeeded in camouflaging his plump and spankable bottom.
Truman Capote
#15. Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.
Jim Ramstad
#16. Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.
Joanne Harris
#17. To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
William Hague
#18. Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true." - from A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject in 1851.
William Wilson
#19. I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier, where we could all tote guns, shoot anything that moved and spit to our hearts' content. But we live in a diverse and crowded country, and with civilization comes regulation.
Molly Ivins
#20. There are five forms of wealth: economic wealth, relationship wealth, physical wealth, adventure wealth and what I call psychic wealth (which is all about filling your life with meaning).
Robin S. Sharma
#21. Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.
Margaret Bourke-White
#22. Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.
Billy Graham
#25. Many options are not transparent. They need to be explored and evaluated with care. What you see is not always what you get.
J. Grant Howard
#26. Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.
Lee Child
#27. Dharma companions filling mountains, a sangha forms of itself: chanting, sitting ch'an stillness. Looking out from distant city walls, people see only white clouds.
David Hinton
#28. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.
Ron Livingston
#29. There is nothing wrong with being scared. It only means that something important is at stake.
Sarah Fine
#30. I peered around the corner into the main recovery ward. All I could see were surgeons. Surgeons filling out those incessant forms. Surgeons bringing cups of tea and little sandwich triangles to patients. Surgeons laying in a lethargic stupor, recovering from eye surgery.
Lauren Pearce
