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Quotes About Paperwork

I waved back and went in, and began to sort my way through ancient building plans that had been rolled up so long that straightening them out was like six bouts with an octopus.
~ Dick Francis
Sweetie, this is Hell. We invented paperwork.
~ Unknown
And there's already a cop writer in the Cities." "Mostly that one guy," Lucas said. "Whatshisname. But his cop never does any paperwork. Or uses the can.
~ John Sandford
With all the paperwork done and all the problems of the village solved, I did what anyone in my position would do: I took a nap. Welcome to the rough and tumble world of colonial village ombudsmanning. It's possible it's done differently elsewhere, but if it is, I don't want to know.
~ John Scalzi
Just us two men," my father said, my father who had so longed for a son that he had flown paper plans--adoption forms in triplicate--all the way to Africa to make his dream come true.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
~ Jean Vanier
Sweetie, this is Hell. We invented paperwork.
~ Unknown
The DebtOne deal was simply a typical transaction in a consumer credit industry that depends upon robo-signing, mass fraud, and intentionally thin paperwork as essential elements of its profit model.
~ Matt Taibbi
By eight o'clock Margaret was due at her post, a metal desk with a clackety typewriter where daily she proved that war wasn't just hell, it was hell with paperwork.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
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
It's like the fellah in the lavatory said, No job's over 'til the paperwork's done.
~ Unknown
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
~ Peter De Vries