Camille Grammer Quotes

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

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.

When I turned 18, my agent was like, 'You should change from Ricky to Rick.' So I thought it was a good idea. Rick never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it.

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.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone's mouth was 'Mister,' a sign of respect.

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

There's something about dealing with government agencies that makes you feel like a criminal.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.

Should bureaucratic ways prevail and paper reign supreme? Should red tape and the Status Quo become our nation’s dream?

A hospital ought to be a house of healing, not a monument to paperwork and bureaucracy.

I confess to a prejudice against officialism and a dread of bureaucracy.

One thing the United Nation is good at is producing documents.

Superfluous bureaucracies and the system of file-keeping and paper-shuffling that is enforced by them … are totally alien to Islam

Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

The problem in D.C. is that everything is on paper, and it's theoretical.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

People who want to remember me as Cat Stevens - welcome. Those who want me as Yusuf, you're here.

Never trust people; always trust paper. I'd marry a piece of paper if I could.