Receptionist Quotes

#1. The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.

Jessica Szohr

#2. The ultimate downfall of the computerized holographic receptionist was that there was no amount of flattery, flirtation or chocolate that could convince one to lie for you.

Scott B. Pruden

#3. I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency.

Lee Daniels

#4. I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do ... it's weird, non?

Emmanuelle Beart

#5. I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'

Anchee Min

#6. You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Harvey MacKay

#7. We're here to deliver preemie hats to Sharon Jennings," Libby explained. The receptionist

Debbie Macomber

#8. From the CEO, receptionist to the office manager, everybody at your startup should know the one-minute pitch of your business

Timi Nadela

#9. I love my life. I can't believe I work in New York and Paris. That I work for Louis Vuitton. That I work for Marc Jacobs. It seems really weird every time I say my full name - like, that's me, and every time I hear the receptionist say my name, it's still weird.

Marc Jacobs

#10. Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#11. From the CEO to the receptionist to the office manager, everybody at your startup business should know that one-minute elevator pitch.

Timi Nadela

#12. But he might have had a bang on the head!" said Joan. "Poor little boy, he thinks he was a rat!"
"Hmm," said the receptionist, and wrote rodent delusion on a pink slip of paper.

Philip Pullman

#13. The receptionist laughs. Relax. It just means you're a first-time visitor here at Gray Holdings.

Andrew Shaffer

#14. Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone ... she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.

James Wolcott

#15. I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Patricof

#16. I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

Carly Fiorina

#17. Last time I really got to know myself it turned out there was a whole gang of bitches in there to deal with. I felt like the receptionist at a rehab center. They all had nice tits though, I gotta say.

Christopher Moore

#18. You're not a receptionist!" Violet cried.
"I certainly am," Shirley said. "I'm a poor receptionist who lives all by herself, and who wants very much to raise children of her own. Three children, in fact: a smartypants little girl, a hypnotized little boy, and a buck-toothed baby.

Lemony Snicket

#19. When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?

Retta

#20. I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

Jon Bon Jovi

#21. My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

Gabourey Sidibe

#22. I dare say being a receptionist at the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square gets you a reasonable salary and all the nylon stockings you can eat,

Hugh Laurie

#23. My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.

Anchee Min

#24. Christ, he had GI Jane as his receptionist.

Kristen Ashley

#25. I'm sorry, only your husband is permitted to accompany you in Doctor's office for the consultation," the receptionist said primly. Taylor looked her in the eye. "They are my husbands," she said flatly.

Teal Ceagh

#26. Along the way, I've worked as a waitress, I've done phone surveys, and worked as a receptionist, and for the last twenty years I've taught. When I was an actor, the key was to find a job that kept your days free to audition.

Debra Dean

#27. When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.

John Ridley

#28. I nodded in approval, turned around and opened the door, and stepped into the hall. I walked past the receptionist, smiling at her shocked face when she told me in a superficial voice to have a nice day, and I gave her a parting gift - my middle finger.

J.A. Saare

#29. I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'

Elizabeth Meriwether

#30. I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.

Gabourey Sidibe

#31. You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

Jeff Foxworthy

#32. The receptionist at Horne, Buckman and Pierce, a classic battle-ax who was comfortably past her prime, eyed Loren as if she'd recognized her from a sex offender poster. Full frown in place, the battle-ax told her to sit. Randal

Harlan Coben

#33. If you didn't suspect you had social anxiety, you wouldn't bother doing the quiz; you'd be too busy chatting with the receptionist.

Liane Moriarty

#34. Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a typist and a mom; that you can be a Vice President and a mom. One of the two things will win. Now look at your Bible and ask what you have to do.

Alistair Begg

#35. The receptionist xeroxed my insurance card while explaining that chromotherapy isn't covered by insurance.

Miranda July

#36. Miss Strange?" said the receptionist. "The King's Useless Brother has become bored and will see you early.

Jasper Fforde

#37. Names?' the receptionist asked us.
"Jesus," Jamie answered.
"Mary," said Stella.
"Satan," I said as I walked past her and pushed open the door to Ira Ginsberg's office.

Michelle Hodkin

#38. I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at night while I was working as the receptionist for a Baptist church. That was an interesting conversation with the pastor.

Molly Harper

#39. I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That's how it started. I worked my way.

Katie Cassidy

#40. My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

Gene Kelly

#41. Receptionist also added super-breath when I offered her twenty bucks.

Mark Millar