An accountant is a
An accountant is a man who puts his head in the past and backs his ass into the future. F. Ross Johnson
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An accountant is a man who puts his head in the past and backs his ass into the future. F. Ross Johnson
I’m pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever. Douglas Preston
There aren’t more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren’t more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers. Dorothy Fields
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, ‘Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub-agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the theses, the books of criticism, the reviewers, the book pages- all this vast and proliferating … Read more
No, I’m not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn’t persuade them and it cost me everything I had. Donald Sutherland
I’ve got an accountant who’s been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies. Don Rickles
All I’m doing is I’m filling out my tax returns – or my accountants are, and I’m paying whatever I’m supposed to pay, though I’m giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I’m giving away so much money. But change the law, but don’t blame me … Read more
You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today’s cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it’s needed … You deal … Read more
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big. David Crosby
I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I gobbled crystal meth at 12, smoked hashish at 13, and was shooting smack at 17, which explains how I got Hepatitis C, which was the basis of my first book, which was a … Read more