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Quotes About Office

I spend more time in suits than anyone in the corporate world.
~ Adrian Pasdar
When I went for my medical school interview, I had an old paperback of 'Henderson the Rain King' in the pocket of my coat. I was wearing the best clothes I had - a pair of cords and a sport coat - but when I got to the office, all the other interviewees were lined up in their black suits.
~ Ethan Canin
The problems began almost immediately for the Hollywood Division CRO because, according to unofficial reports to the office of the chief of police, Hollywood was not like anywhere else. In fact, the unofficial report referred to Hollywood as "America's kook capital.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
When I get to Principal Belding's office, Miss Bliss, his secretary
~ Josie Brown
You're rather young, Miss Danner, Mary summarized, her pale blue gaze scraping Lauren's face and figure. I'm aging quickly, Laruen replied. Ignoring the older woman's piercing look, she settled into the secretarial desk opposite Mary's in the large officec.
~ Judith McNaught
One night my father came home from the office all excited. He told us Mr. and Mrs. Yarby were coming to New York. He's the president of the Juicy-O company. He
~ Judy Blume
I question this stereotype of the technologically tethered worker with no control over his time. Instead, the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for both work-related and personal matters is shown to have positive, as well as negative, implications for men and women workers. The contemporary office has by my account morphed into a ubiquitous technoscape, and this has reconfigured the very nature of working time.
~ Judy Wajcman
I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.
~ Wallace Stevens
You men win your way into office and retain that office essentially by promising some Americans that you will give them the fruits of another man's labor. You also win office by promising one group of Americans that they will be given a right or privilege that will be denied other Americans.
~ Walter E. Williams
Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.
~ Walter Lippmann
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
~ Walter Lippmann
To you sir, this may appear strange; it may appear impertinent; it may appear astonishing; but to me, sir, who am as uncorrupted, us unprotected by power, it is a duty which every honest man out of office should observe towards every rogue in.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
Café ? Le bureau du divisionnaire Coudrier est un vieux souvenir qui n'a pas changé.
~ Daniel Pennac
You think this is the first time you've been at risk of killing someone? You're a nurse. The wrong injection and boom, dead patient. That never stopped you from working. You could run over three people on the way to the office. That never stopped you from driving. You did these things, despite the risks,
~ Daniel Price
the Office is in Tel Aviv.
~ Daniel Silva
Reich Main Security Office
~ Daniel Silva
Foulk and friends suggest the toxic effect of rudeness - some actually call it a neurotoxin - lasts an entire week. It can spread like wildfire around a contained office, leading to general hostility, lower morale, poorer performance, and worse coffee. ... In fact, it's been shown that even when the rude behavior is mild at best, it impairs a person's basic ability to think. F You Very Much pages 23-24
~ Danny Wallace
The people learned that they could grumble without being disloyal, because the ministers were not beloved kings above reproach, but only rather stupid people like themselves, probably even more stupid. The ministers discovered that office had undoubted advantages, but they knew they would not be reelected unless they governed well, so mostly they tried their best. Each kept watch that none of the others got away with more than he did, and this kept corruption within limits.
~ Dave Duncan
He appears to hit the office when he feels inspired. Spending a few hours working heatedly before the creative impulse evaporates and he leaves the study.
~ David Archer
John Wilkerson put away his broom and sat down in the little janitorial office. Most janitors found their offices in the basement, but John, head janitor for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, had an office on the very top floor. The reason for this was simple; John Wilkerson was a janitor only when he was not performing his less official function of being a very special agent of the CIA.
~ David Archer
As we walked to Fr Walsh's office, Sting asked me what I thought our punishment might be. I had just been beaten for the missing page fiasco, and he told me, straight-faced, that his last thrashing was because his dad was a milkman.
~ James Berryman
Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office [the presidency], the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men.
~ James Bryce
When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.
~ James Lee Burke
4091 East Olympic Boulevard proved to be a nondescript one-storey sandstone building of the sort you drive blithely by every day, knowing it's full of paper-pushers and clock-watchers, and nobody's in there writing a symphony or taming a lion or having an orgasm.
~ James Morrow