Office Quotes - Page 19

• Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Doctors, Nurse

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• Knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Doctors, Waiting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2010). “Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again”, p.8, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wall, War, Heart

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• Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.

  Jean Chretien

  Government, Information, Administration

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• A man is still likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job. You have a far better chance of entering political office or becoming a company director... Women are responsible for two thirds of the work done worldwide, yet earn only 10% of the total income and own 1% of the property... So, are we equals? Until the answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

  Daniel Craig

  Jobs, Men, Equal Pay

  "James Bond video for international women's day shows 007's feminine side" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2011.

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• The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life

  Willard Gaylin

  Inspiration, Space, Adults

  Willard Gaylin (1989). “The Rage Within: Anger in Modern Life”, Penguin Books

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• We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

  Jodi Rell

  Faith, Citizens, Privilege

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• I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

  Angus Wilson

  Morning, Air, Breathing

  Angus Wilson (2015). “The Old Men at the Zoo”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

  John Zorn

  Work, Home, Phones

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

  Bobby Darin

  Running, Party, Hymns

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• There is only one ingredient for innovation and that is the power of the human mind. As long as a company is able to attract, enable, empower and retain the best of the brightest, it will have a play. As long as the leadership of companies ensure that the physically and mentally tired mind that leaves office at whatever 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm or 9:00 pm comes back mentally and physically reenergised and enthusiastic to add significant value to the customer next morning, the job is done.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Morning, Jobs, Tired

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• A Jap's a Jap. There is no way to determine their loyalty... This coast is too vulnerable. No Jap should come back to this coast except on a permit from my office.

  John L. DeWitt

  Loyalty, Tyrants, Way

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

  George S. Kaufman

  Lunch, Office Hours, Hours

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• This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

  Jane Pauley

  Funny, Giving, Boss

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• During job interviews, when they ask: 'What is your worst quality?', I always say: 'Flatulence'. That way I get my own office.

  Dan Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, People, Democracy

  1920 Liberty and the News,'What Modern Liberty Means'.

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• And if you're gonna be a writer, you just truly have to be a writer. You have to throw yourself into it and deal with the negative consequences of that. And there are negative consequences. I mean, there are. But, it's also true that you wouldn't be interviewing me right now if I had worked at the post office. You wouldn't. I would be still writing, but I wouldn't have gotten as far as I've gotten, because I wouldn't have had the time.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Writing, Mean, Negative

  "Put It in a Box and Wait: The Millions Interviews Cheryl Strayed". Interview with Robin Grearson, www.themillions.com. October 18, 2012.

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• We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.

  Irving Kaplansky

  Philosophy, Writing, Thinking

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• Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.

  James L. Buckley

  Mean, Soul, Saving

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• Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in.

  Edgar Berman

  Cancer, Heart, Dark

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• MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Purpose, Use, Clubs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.134, 谷月社

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• I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

  Peter Mayle

  Writing, My Own

  Peter Mayle (1992). “Acquired tastes”, Bantam

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• Create your own individual style. I'm not interested in the girl who walks into my office in a HEAD-to-TOE LABEL look that's straight off the runway. I'm interested in a Girl who puts herself together in an ORIGINAL INDEPENDENT Way

  Anna Wintour

  Girl, Independent, Style

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• Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of a disappointment to the attorney general, who had hoped to be raptured out of office.

  Jon Stewart

  Goodbye, Disappointment, Farewell

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• Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

  George W. Bush

  Running, Principles, Want

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