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Quotes About Office

Don't worry, Malcolm," President Obama told his Australian counterpart, Malcolm Turnbull, when the latter expressed concern to him about Trump's early GOP primary successes. "The American people will never elect a lunatic to sit in this office.
~ Mark Leibovich
I jump from a building As if I were falling asleep, The wind like a pillow Slowing me down, Slowing me down As if I were dreaming. Surrounded by air, I come to a stop, And stand like a tourist Watching the pigeons. People in offices, Wanting to save me, Open their mouths. 'Throw me a stone,' I yell, Wanting to fall. But nobody listens. They throw me a rope. And now I am walking, Taking to you, Talking to you As if I were dreaming I were alive.
~ Mark Strand
The haute décor of the San Diego Homicide Division offices could have been lifted straight out of any insurance ajusters' pied-a-terre in Omaha.
~ Unknown
America. Connecticut. Tell the general here that I'm with the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, and that I represent Allen Dulles.
~ Unknown
Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.
~ Spike Milligan
I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.
~ Nick Cave
In the office, Michael sat behind our father's desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak.
~ Unknown
I have a fax machine with "fax waiting".
~ Steven Wright
They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.
~ Milton Berle
The golden rule of work is that the bosses jokes are ALWAYS funny.
~ Unknown
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to the office.
~ Robert Frost
You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
How much less, then, is the disorder to be tolerated that arises when a Christian leaves his office and takes upon him a temporal office, or when a bishop or pastor leaves his office and takes upon him the office of a prince or judge; or, on the other hand, when a prince takes up the office of a bishop and lets his princely office go? Even today this shameful disorder rages and rules in the whole papacy, contrary to their own canons and laws.
~ Martin Luther
You are commanded to get angry, not on your own behalf, but on behalf of your office and of God; you must not confuse the two, your person and your office.
~ Martin Luther
Two central tenets of Republican government were that office holding should always be temporary and that, except in emergencies when one man might need to take control for a short while, power should always be shared.
~ Mary Beard
By comparison, one controversial consul in 59 BCE got off lightly: he was merely pelted with excrement and spent the rest of his year of office barricaded at home.
~ Mary Beard
Caesar instantly convened an assembly to elect one of his friends, Caius Caninius Rebilus, to the vacant post for just half a day. This prompted a flood of jokes from Cicero: Caninius was such an extraordinarily vigilant consul that 'he never once went to sleep in his whole term of office'; 'in
~ Mary Beard
The first qualification for most political offices was wealth on a substantial scale. No one could stand for election without passing a financial test that excluded most citizens;
~ Mary Beard
years that is exactly what he did, before resigning the office, retiring to his country house on the Bay of Naples and dying in his bed in 78 BCE. It was a surprisingly peaceful
~ Mary Beard
It's the odious, insufferable people who usually get to the top.
~ Unknown
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
~ Maureen Reagan
Taylor believed that the unique success of the 914 copier had inculcated Xerox management with the doctrine that good things derived only from hardware. He was determined to show them that this idea was obsolete. As PARC envisioned the office of the future, a single piece of equipment could be made to serve multiple uses simply by changes in its software.
~ Unknown
Portentously, one of Obama's first acts on entering the White House was to replace a bust of Winston Churchill, America's unflagging World War II ally, with that of Abraham Lincoln. Netanyahu reentered the Prime Minister's Office and promptly hung Churchill's photograph on the wall behind his desk.
~ Michael B. Oren
Is this a torture chamber?" Puck asked eagerly. "Listen to all the suffering! Isn't it cool?" "This is a dental office," the receptionist explained. "People come here to get a healthy smile." There was another groan. Puck laughed. "Sure! That guy sounds like he's smiling alright. Are you hiring?
~ Michael Buckley