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Quotes About Office

47. Former U.S. president Calvin Coolidge used to enjoy buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for him.
~ Scott Matthews
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time?
~ Scott Rosenberg
I didnt set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office.
~ Bill de Blasio
Our challenge with "The Office" and "Extras" was to get it completely scripted but to find a cast that could make it look like they were saying it for the first time.
~ Ricky Gervais
In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time.
~ William Davis
Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.
~ Mark Twain
RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR--[Written about 1870.]
~ Mark Twain
Trademark Office, the Canadian Trade Marks Office and
~ Marta Perry
Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool. I don't keep office hours.
~ Martin Gayford
after pondering suicide, Goodman called Neff at his office.
~ Atul Gawande
What in Satan's slightly misguided obsession with Journey happened to this office?" Astrid demanded
~ Stephanie Rowe
He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. He even had a pamphlet in his desk that he gave me. I now use it as a bookmark.
~ Stephen Chbosky
in a famous paper in 1905, a hitherto unknown clerk in the Swiss patent office, Albert Einstein, pointed out that the whole idea of an ether was unnecessary, providing one was willing to abandon the idea of absolute time.
~ Stephen Hawking
I used to have a bumper sticker that read Black Holes are out of sight on the door of my office in DAMTP [Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge]. This so irritated the head of the department that he engineered my election to the Lucasian Professorship, moved me to a better office on the strength of it, and personally tore the offending notice off the door of the old office.
~ Stephen Hawking
I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.
~ Condoleezza Rice
Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
~ Johnny Carson
Ninety percent of doctor visits are stress related, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the #1 cause of office stress is coworkers and their complaining, according to Truejobs.com.
~ Jon Gordon
One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.
~ Jon Gordon
Eleven stories above Brooklyn Heights in a 659,000-square-foot building that also housed Morgan Stanley and the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, Hillary's top aides were as miserable as midlevel bureaucrats in an agency with no clear plans for how to attain its mission. They
~ Jonathan Allen
So we read, in Heb. xiii. 17, of ministers being rulers in the house of God, "that watch for souls, as those that must give account." And we see by the forementioned Luke xiv., that ministers must give an account to their master, not only of their own behavior in the discharge of their office, but also of their people's reception of them, and of the treatment they have met with among them. And
~ Jonathan Edwards
Unless there's an officer-involved shooting or some other high-profile event going on, the Homicide Office is dead in the middle of the night.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Sam," he said, "I knew what you were when you walked into my office." "Why? Because Cricket told you?" "Nope." "Then how? I didn't wear my 'I'm A Werewolf, Ask Me How' button today.
~ Jonathan Maberry
The little office, scarcely large enough to contain Dr. Irene's desk at one end and the couch at the other, held a world of memories for Lily. Here, fifty minutes at a time, two or three times a week, she'd spilled out her hopes and fears, her childhood nightmares and adolescent insecurities – in a sense, she'd grown up in this room.
~ Jonathan Nasaw
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
~ Jonathan Swift