Humor Quote by Scott B. Pruden

“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was…

— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

“rude, but the girl was a receptionist”

— J.C. Reed

“there was a battered desk with its drawers open and askew, like a lady of the night with her heels kicked off and pantyhose…

— Jen Frederick

“I stopped at the front desk, about to complain to the doorman, when I was confronted with a NEW doorman, my age but balding…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“The office was large, with many women and men at desks, and she learned their names, and presented to them an amiability she assumed…

— Andre Dubus

“The woman was putting her purse in the drawer and settling down behind the desk, and I realized I had never seen her before…

— Alan Bradley

“The ads in the papers all said 'help wanted, will train,' but wherever she went she was turned down. "The position's just been filled,"…

— Julie Otsuka

“The role had been spawned by the widespread belief that traders didn’t know how to talk to computer geeks and that computer geeks did…

— Michael Lewis

“Monotonous and thankless as her job can be sometimes, she cheers at the thought of her coworkers - a dozen of them crammed into…

— Alexis M. Smith

“RECEPTIONIST LOOKED RIGHT through me as I crossed the carpeted lobby between glass-cased tanker models and clipper ship prints. I winked at her, and…

— William Hjortsberg

“Never mind the fact that what she described was the content of LITERALLY EVERY VOICE MAIL IN HISTORY. Name, hello, please call back. Not…

— Aziz Ansari

“And yet he kept sticking to her life like gum on the sole of her shoe, either on the Net or in real life.…

— Stieg Larsson