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Quotes About Office

Florida Cable News. A gray-haired man behind the anchor desk reported near tragedy at a state motor vehicle office, where a man who had failed the eye exam pulled a gun and fired fifteen shots at the staff, hitting nobody.
~ Tim Dorsey
On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
~ Ted Cruz
You know, I once did a short film with Kay Cannon. It was set at a gynecologist's office and I was her nurse in hospital scrubs.
~ Brendan Hunt
I want to say to all of you that when I take my oath of office I will do my absolute best to use all of my abilities for all of the people of Ireland.
~ Michael D. Higgins
I took an oath of office to protect Arizona from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
~ Doug Ducey
I am proud to take the oath of office to represent and serve the great people of Colorado's Third Congressional District.
~ Lauren Boebert
The dumbing down of America is proceeding apace. Juster's allegorical monsters have become all too real. The Demons of Ignorance, the Gross Exaggeration (whose wicked teeth were made "only to mangle the truth"), and the shabby Threadbare Excuse are inside the walls of the Kingdom of Wisdom, while the Gorgons of Hate and Malice, the Overbearing Know-it-all, and most especially the Triple Demons of Compromise are already established in high office all over the world.
~ Norton Juster
You must be joking! What exactly could they be laughing about?" "Well, I didn't hear it directly, of course. Kenan told Füsun. And she told me…. And she was quite upset, too. Apparently it's general knowledge at Satsat that every night at quitting time, you and Sibel would meet there for a romp on the divan in the corner office. This is what all the snickering was about." "What's happened now?
~ Orhan Pamuk
was good enough when good men held the office, but always when you create an office that a man can lay hands on, an evil man will someday lay hands on it.
~ Orson Scott Card
To see high merit and be unable to raise it to office, to raise it but not to give such promotion precedence, is just destiny.
~ Confucius
Interesting office management skills, kind of a 'violence is not the answer so I'm going to beat the shit out of you philosophy.
~ Craig Johnson
have you heard the sex party rumor?" She winced and said, "It actually does sound familiar." I had the impulse to shake my head, but I didn't want to mess up Veronica's handiwork. I said, "You know when true equality will be achieved? When a woman with these kinds of skeletons in her closet has the nerve to run for office." 2004
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Actually, I liked the principal's office. It was interesting to see the teachers come and go, talking about what they would have for lunch or what they had done the night before just as if they were normal people. I
~ Walter Dean Myers
People know how to deal with a desktop intuitively. If you walk into an office, there are papers on the desk. The one on the top is the most important. People know how to switch priority. Part of the reason we model our computers on metaphors like the desktop is that we can leverage this experience people already have.
~ Walter Isaacson
When shown his office, he was asked what equipment he might need. "A desk or table, a chair, paper and pencils," he replied. "Oh yes, and a large wastebasket, so I can throw away all my mistakes.
~ Walter Isaacson
The company's first office, after it moved out of his family garage, was in a small building it shared with a Sony sales office.
~ Walter Isaacson
was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me," he recalled. "If a person falls freely, he will not feel his own weight." That realization, which "startled" him, launched him on an arduous eight-year effort to generalize his special theory of relativity and "impelled me toward a theory of gravitation."16 Later, he would grandly call it "the happiest* thought in my life.
~ Walter Isaacson
Tallow turned the corner into Bat and Scarly's office to be greeted by a large plastic robot on the bench waving its arms and shouting, Say hello to my l'il frien' in an electronically processed voiced as a small plastic penis repeatedly jabbed out from its groin on a short metal piston. Bat emerged from behind the thing. Don't judge me, he said. I got bored.
~ Warren Ellis
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
~ Charles Peters
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof they were busy.
~ Charles Peters
Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface...
~ Charles Stross
He don't read. You know he doesn't have a book in his office? Not a fucking book in the shelves. Ain't that some shit? (Adolph Mongo speaking of Kwame Kilpatrick)
~ Charlie LeDuff
He smiled when he talked, a smile that was not completely cold, but was the professional smile of a man who spends his days answering easy questions for people whom he'd rather usher out of his office via catapult.
~ Cherie Priest
This may be a shitty work environment, but OSHA doesn't have any guidelines when it comes to ghosts. We'll have to make up our own as we go.
~ Cherie Priest