Office Quotes · Page 24

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

— Stephen Greenblatt

In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

— John F. Kennedy

You remind me of the black guy on The Office, because you're the black guy in our office.

— Anonymous

Some candidates can sit in an office for 10 hours a day asking for money. That's just not who I am.

— Paul Sadler

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

— Jackie Cooper

I feel squeezed like a lemon - interviewers and people keep turning up unannounced at my office!

— Francois Englert

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

— M. E. Lazarus

The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States…

— Nikola Tesla

“Choose your company the way you choose your life partner; after all, you spend more time in the company than with your…

— Ravi Kapilavai

Barack Obama is a street corner community organizer who is using the office of the presidency here to virtually undermine it.

— Rush Limbaugh

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.

— James Howard Kunstler

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office,…

— James Stockdale

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S.…

— Matthew Lesko

As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't…

— Barack Obama

The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science:…

— Charles Babbage

I buy art in order to live with it at home or in the office, never to store it away in a…

— Michael Audain

The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself…

— Galileo Galilei

In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of…

— George Washington

When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could…

— Leonard Read

Corporations did not achieve the scale we normally associate with them until the 1880s; but it's still hard to imagine that Abraham…

— Allen C. Guelzo

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

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

— Ricky Gervais

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

— Franklin Knight Lane

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

— Bret Hart

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

— Stevie Wonder

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

— John Marshall

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

— Alberto Manguel

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

— Jonas Blue

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

— Andrew Davies

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

— John Adams

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

— Karen Bass

THERE'S SOMETHING BORING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO GO TO AN OFFICE FOR A LIVING.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

— Aesop

We actually have to have a government. We have to have people confirmed and put into office.

— David Brooks

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.

— John Key

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

— Rick Perry