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“The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly, like the universe. It had logic. It was dependable. Using it allowed a kind of moral uplift, as one's own chaos was also brought under control.

'Whenever I am troubled,' said the librarian, 'I think about the Dewey decimal system.'

'Then what happens?' asked the junior, rather overawed.

'Then I understand that trouble is just something that has been filed in the wrong place. That is what Jung was explaining of course--as the chaos of our unconscious contents strive to find their rightful place in the index of consciousness.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails because, in the moment, just about any task seems more palatable than sitting down to write.â€� (p.136)”
― Mark David Gerson, The Voice of the Muse: Answering the Call to Write

“People like to be shown around archives. I don’t know why. I’m in the business, but one row of shelves stuffed with manila files looks much like another.”
― V.T. Davy, Black Art

“In the midst of a full-blown disaster â€� with the house apparently self-destructing around them â€� Lila was calmly filing her nails.”
― Francine Pascal, Earthquake

“[I]f he had to guess, he would say that the reason he doesn't want to loan the book out, to Ethan or anyone else, is because of the part of his personality that is one gigantic record-keeping system, a complex sifting and filing scheme that dictates what goes here and what goes there, turning his life into so many marks on a tablet. His mind would busy itself with the book's whereabouts every second it was away. He knows it would.”
― Kevin Brockmeier, A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade

“Miscellaneousâ€� and ‘Otherâ€� are not file names.”
― Cynthia Kyriazis

“After filing a patent, your job is only quarter done.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

“Vesta was so good with paperwork â€� you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.â€�”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“Files are like contracts. No one really needs them until there’s a problem!”
― Cynthia Kyriazis

“Filing a complaint against the police may turn the blue brotherhood against you.”
― Steven Magee

“After filing a complaint against a police officer, it is unlikely the police blue brotherhood will ever uphold your legal rights again!”
― Steven Magee

“When the police are messing me around, I take comfort in the knowledge that I will be filing a police internal affairs complaint regarding the incident.”
― Steven Magee

“Police officers are almost untouchable by filing a complaint against them.”
― Steven Magee

“It appears common for the police to refuse to supply body camera recordings that are later obtained through filing a police complaint. They often show their officers engaging in questionable activities!”
― Steven Magee

“Mr Police Officer, you do not know me and as a police corruption researcher I will be filing a police complaint about you if I see any form of police misconduct from you.”
― Steven Magee