Office Quotes · Page 16

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

— Karen Bass

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

— John Adams

People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.

— Andrew Davies

I've never had that boring office job. All my jobs were music related.

— Jonas Blue

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

— Alberto Manguel

What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

— John Marshall

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

— Stevie Wonder

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

— Franklin Knight Lane

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least…

— C. S. Lewis

I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out…

— Ice Cube

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like…

— Margaret Atwood

I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post…

— Jeff Sessions

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot.…

— Dick Van Dyke

I wake up and I go to work. I don't look for the cup of coffee. The universe is enough of a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have…

— Keith Rabois

I'm not too easily distracted now I've had practice, but I write with nothing to look at. I used to rent an…

— Jane Goldman

Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn't being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic?…

— Noreena Hertz

That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This…

— Andrew Sullivan

I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on…

— Ramez Naam

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights,…

— Thomas Jefferson

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us.…

— Stephen Merchant

Out of the night you burn, Manhattan, In a vesture of gold-- Spun of innumerable arcs, Flaring and multiplying-- Gold at the…

— Lola Ridge

For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was…

— Rich Sommer

What I'm trying to do is to create excitement. So people looking at the Bloomberg's office building say, "My goodness, what's going…

— Michael Bloomberg

Toronto deserves Rob Ford; they put him in office. Toronto deserves everything it gets.

— Bret Hart

With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.

— Ricky Gervais

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to…

— Bill Gates

Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.

— M. E. Lazarus

My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president.

— Alveda King

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

— Woodrow Wilson

Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.

— Barack Obama

I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.

— Muhammad Ali

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office…

— Julia Child

No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

— Katherine Harris

[Barack] Obama, he'll be out of office soon and, frankly,[Donald] Trump relies on him .

— Chuck Todd

No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.

— Venus Williams

I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

— Nancy Pelosi

I have great respect for both President Obama and the office that he holds

— Barack Obama

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

— Dana Brunetti

“It was the first time I'd been in her office without her there, intimidating me into immobility.”

— Melissa Jensen