Quotes on Office

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

Author: Dean Acheson

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

Author: Jack Adams

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

Author: Felix Adler

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Author: Aesop

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

Author: Shana Alexander

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

Author: Richard Allen

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

Author: Arthur Baer

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

Author: Joseph Barbera

I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff.

Author: John Barton

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

Author: Dirk Benedict

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Author: Erma Bombeck

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

Author: Louis Brandeis

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.

Author: Stephen Breyer

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

Author: David Broder

I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.

Author: Jack Chalker

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Author: Noam Chomsky

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

Author: William Clinton

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

Author: John Connally

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

Author: Jilly Cooper

For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.

Author: Tony Curtis

It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

Author: Christopher Darden

The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.

Author: Bobby Darin

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

Author: Geena Davis

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.

Author: Blake Edwards

I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.

Author: Bob Edwards

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

Author: Jan Egeland

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

Author: John Elway

I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.

Author: Georgie Fame

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Author: Robert Frost

In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.

Author: Linda Godwin

You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.

Author: Alex Halen

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Author: Gary Hart

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

Author: Mary Hart

Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.

Author: Steven Hatfill

Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.

Author: Betty Hill

The office of presbyters is a permanent one.

Author: Charles Hodge

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

Author: David Hume

I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

Author: Gwen Ifill

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

Author: LeBron James

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.

Author: George Kaufman

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Author: John Kennedy

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Author: Henry Kissinger

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

Author: Vaclav Klaus

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

Author: Rem Koolhaas

One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it.

Author: Carson Kressley

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

Author: Charles Lamb

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

Author: George Lucas

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

Author: Jose Marti

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

Author: Harriet Martineau

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

Author: James McGreevey

Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

Author: James McGreevey

I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them.

Author: Jason Mewes

Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.

Author: Dennis Miller

Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.

Author: Roy Moore

The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot.

Author: David Neeleman

I was considering running for political office.

Author: Michael Newdow

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Author: Richard Nixon

I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.

Author: Edward Olmos

It's easier to run for office than to run the office.

Author: Thomas O'Neill

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Author: George Pataki

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

Author: Rick Perry

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

Author: Kenneth Pike

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

Author: Orville Redenbacher

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

Author: Tim Robbins

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years.

Author: James Roosevelt

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

Author: Rita Rudner

While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

Author: George Ryan

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

Author: Paul Samuelson

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

Author: Marilyn Savant

Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.

Author: Marilyn Savant

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

Author: Martin Sheen

It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President "polarizing" after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years in office.

Author: Jeffrey Stewart

I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.

Author: Henry Stimson

Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.

Author: George Takei

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Author: Harry Truman

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

Author: Jack Vance

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.

Author: Jim Wallis

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

Author: Chris Wedge

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Author: Deng Xiaoping

I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.

Author: Abraham Zapruder