History Quotes / AlmightyJanitor

'''Vice Dean Laybourne:''' And you never ''had to'', Dean! You could have lived the rest of your life [[IgnoranceIsBliss in blissful ignorance]] and died a happy pansexual imp! [[DrunkWithPower But]] ''[[DrunkWithPower you]]'' [[DrunkWithPower wanted to feel power this year]]... [[BadassBoast Well, now you are going to feel]] ''[[BadassBoast my]]'' [[BadassBoast power]], [[ColdHam as it surges downward from me straight through you, from nostril to rectum, now until the end of time]]. ''And that's''... '''''[[IronicEcho wassup]]'''''.

'''Vice Dean Laybourne:''' And you never ''had to'', Dean! You could have lived the rest of your life [[IgnoranceIsBliss in blissful ignorance]] and died a happy pansexual imp! But ''you'' wanted to feel power this year... Well, now you are going to feel ''my'' power, as it surges downward from me straight through you, from nostril to rectum, now until the end of time. ''And that's''... '''''wassup'''''.
-->-- ''Series/{{Community}}''

->'''Dr. Ray Stanz:''' This is a major disgrace. Forget MIT or Stanford now. They wouldn't touch us with a 10-meter cattle prod.
->'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' You're always so concerned about your reputation. [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]] did his best stuff when he was working as a patent clerk.
->'''Stanz:''' [[AnalogyBackfire Do you know how much a patent clerk earns]]?!
->'''Venkman:''' No!

-->-- '''[[TheAce Harry]] describing to Draco how one becomes a [[BattleButler Butler]] for the Hellsing Organization''', ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheEndlessNight''

-->—- '''Gordon Freeman''', ''Machinima/FreemansMind''

->''The dojo master stood up. 'Hold!' he commanded. 'Do you not want to know the name of the man you are about to destroy?'\\\
The fighter held his stance, glaring at Lu-Tze. 'I don't need to know name of a sweeper,' he said.\\\
Lu-Tze rolled the cigarette into a skinny cylinder and winked at the angry man, which only stoked the anger.\\\
'It is always wise to know the name of a sweeper, boy,' said the dojo master. 'And my question was not addressed to you.'''

->''The essential premise of the film ''{{Film/Ghostbusters|1984}}'', when you get down to it, is that three upper middle class academics have to [[TallPoppySyndrome slum it in a working class job]] like exterminators. Yes, it layers all sorts of wacky paranormal goofiness onto that, but at the end of the day, that's what it's about -- the absurdity of working class paranormal experts.''
-->-- '''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/04/number-you-are-calling-has-been.html Dr. El Sandifer]]'''

->''I bet a higher percentage of janitors survive this mess more than any other type of employee. If they were holding a mop, they already had a weapon in their hands; they know the entire building; and they have the keys to everything.''
-->—- '''Gordon Freeman''', ''Machinima/FreemansMind''

->''The dojo master stood up. 'Hold!' he commanded. 'Do you not want to know the name of the man you are about to destroy?'\\\
The fighter held his stance, glaring at Lu-Tze. 'I don't need to know name of a sweeper,' he said.\\\
Lu-Tze rolled the cigarette into a skinny cylinder and winked at the angry man, which only stoked the anger.\\\
'It is always wise to know the name of a sweeper, boy,' said the dojo master. 'And my question was not addressed to you.'''
-->—- ''Literature/ThiefOfTime''

->'''Garbage Man:''' Pardon me, sir, but I couldn't help noticing these equations in your garbage. I took the liberty of correcting a few quantum calculations.\\
'''Dilbert:''' Gosh. Why are you a garbage man?\\
'''Garbage Man:''' I think the question is "Why are ''you'' an engineer?"
-->—- ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}''

->''"In [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships my army]]. You'd work for '''me'''."''
-->—- '''British NCO to visiting Soviet Colonel, [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar Berlin 1985.]]'''

->'''[=McNulty=]:''' [Seeing a beat cop writing up a ticket on a parked car] What's the violation?\\
'''Officer Baker:''' Parking in a bus stop, expired registration.\\
'''[=McNulty=]:''' [[SarcasmMode First class police work there, Baker]].\\
'''Officer Baker:''' Yeah, well, this is the word we got from up on high. [[DaChief Straight from the 8th floor downtown]]. I know you think it's bullshit, but [[JustFollowingOrders I spend my shift where they tell me]].\\
'''[=McNulty=]:''' Baker, let me tell you a little secret. A [[MeddlesomePatrolman patrolling officer on his beat]] is the one true dictatorship in America. We can do anything, we can lock a guy up on a petty charge, lock him up for real, or say "Fuck it, let's pull under the expressway and drink ourselves to death", and our side partners will cover it. So no one... and I mean ''no one'' tells us how to waste our shift.
-->-- ''Series/TheWire'' explains how the lowest level police can do whatever they want regardless of what DaChief says.

->''"I've a friend who's a janitor. He knows a lot of dirt."''
-->-- Overheard in an IRC channel

->'''Picard''': At the Academy, there is someone who meant a great deal to me. He has been there ''forever''. You must get to know him; his name is Boothby. Tell him we were friends. When I was there, he helped me. Listen to him.
->'''Wesley''': What does he teach?
->'''Picard''': He's the groundskeeper.
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Final Mission"

->The men and women who [[TheManBehindTheMan actually run]] [[EvilInc Endron]] are well-hidden. They have titles like [[UnusuallyUninterestingName "Senior Advisor on Energy Exploration," and "Assistant Financial Officer."]] They have offices in Endron HQ, but not corner offices. They make a fair bit of money, but not an ostentatious amount - at least, not in any way that can be traced or taxed. They are scattered throughout the corporate structure with seemingly no rhyme and no reason, though there is not a department or operation to which they don't have some connection. Most have plaques on their office walls thanking them for 10 or 15 or 25 years of service to Endron, and their workspaces are generally [[BeneathNotice so banal as to arouse no comment]], [[BeneathSuspicion no suspicion and no interest]].
->That's exactly how They want it: [[HiddenInPlainSight hidden in plain sight]], they are effectively invisible. After all, [[ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster they seem to have no power, no ambition and no say]]. It is only the very keenest of observers who will note that the head of R&D seems to stop by that one accountant's one office more than would seem necessary, or that certain upper-mid-level executives always seem to have lunch just before a major policy shift is made. If an observer of this sort keeps his head down and his eyes open, he may be approached to become one of Them. [[HeKnowsTooMuch If he talks, or tries to raise suspicions, or even lets on that he knows]], [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade he vanishes]].
->That's the way They work.
-->-- ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse - Subsidiaries: A Guide To Pentex''

->'''Dr. Ray Stanz:''' This is a major disgrace. Forget MIT or Stanford now. They wouldn't touch us with a 10-meter cattle prod.
->'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' You're always so concerned about your reputation. [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]] did his best stuff when he was working as a patent clerk.
->'''Stanz:''' [[AnalogyBackfire Do you know how much a patent clerk earns]]?!
->'''Venkman:''' No!
-->-- ''Film/Ghostbusters1984''

-> A magician's house is expect to have certain peculiarities, but the most peculiar feature of [[GentlemanWizard Mr Norrell]]'s house was, without a doubt, [[HyperCompetentSidekick Childermass]]. In no other household in London was there any servant like him. One day he might be observed removing a dirty cup and wiping crumbs from a table like a common footman. The next day he would interrupt a room full of admirals, generals and noblemen to tell them in what particulars he considered them mistaken. Mr Norrell had once publicly reprimanded the Duke of Devonshire for speaking at the same time as Childermass.
-->--''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell''

->'''Yerin:''' You say you're from the Blackflame Empire. Who are you?\\
'''Eithan:''' Young lady, I am the greatest janitor in all existence. I am the son of a janitor, last in a long line of janitors that stretch all the way back to the Sage of Brooms...and beyond!\\
'''Yerin:''' Janitors?\\
'''Eithan:''' Lest you think I'm speaking figuratively, let me clarify. My clan organizes the street sweepers in Blackflame City, we supervise sewer maintenance, we dig ditches and light lamps and sweep chimneys. "Dirty hands are a mark of pride," those are the words by which we live.\\
'''Lindon:''' ''[looking at Eithan's very rich robes]'' Please excuse me if I still seem... untrusting... but surely such a role does not fit your esteemed station. Do you perhaps mean that you keep the streets clean of ''crime'', or you're a clan of assassins ridding an empire of the unworthy...\\
'''Eithan:''' I grew up in the sewers of Blackflame City, ankle-deep in what you might call "sludge."
-->-- ''Literature/CradleSeries'' book 2: ''Soulsmith''

'''Eithan:''' Lest you think I'm speaking figuratively, let me clarify. My clan organizes the street sweepers in Blackflame City, we supervise sewer maintenance, we dig ditches and light lamps and sweep chimneys.\\

-->—- ''[[Literature/ThiefOfTime Thief of Time]]''

'''Casey Ryback:''' Yeah, well... I ''[[MetaphoricallyTrue also]]'' cook.

-> A magician's house is expect to have certain peculiarities, but the most peculiar feature of [[GentlemenWizard Mr Norrell]]'s house was, without a doubt, [[HyperCompetentSidekick Childermass]]. In no other household in London was there any servant like him. One day he might be observed removing a dirty cup and wiping crumbs from a table like a common footman. The next day he would interrupt a room full of admirals, generals and noblemen to tell them in what particulars he considered them mistaken. Mr Norrell had once publicly reprimanded the Duke of Devonshire for speaking at the same time as Childermass.

'''Casey Ryback:''' Yeah, well...I ''[[MetaphoricallyTrue also]]'' cook.

-->—- ''[[Discworld/ThiefOfTime Thief of Time]]''

-->-- '''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/04/number-you-are-calling-has-been.html Dr. Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"In [[BritsWithBattleships my army]]. You'd work for '''me'''."''

-->-- ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'', "The Nagus"

'''Wesley''': What does he teach?