Office Quotes - Page 28

• My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving, Wife, New Day

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• I have great respect for both President Obama and the office that he holds

  Barack Obama

  Israel, President, Great Respect

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• I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end.

  Dorothy Gish

  Funny, Mean, Doe

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• I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

  Robert Mueller

  Thinking, Numbers, Towers

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• It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

  Eisaku Sato

  Government, Proliferation Treaty, People

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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 Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

  Ken Livingstone

  Judgement, London, Mayors

  "Livingstone sworn in as London mayor" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2000.

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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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• I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.

  Harold Larwood

  Views, Years, Sea

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• Typically you see the home office think up some great program but doesn't think through implementation at the store level.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Home, Thinking, Levels

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• We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

  Susan Sarandon

  Usa, People, President

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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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• I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

  George W. Bush

  War, Decision, Mind

  "'I'm a War President,' Bush Says". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, articles.latimes.com. February 9, 2004.

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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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• As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable.

  George Lucas

  Team, Skills, People

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• Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the eaves of the veranda. I did not allow the punka to be used because it blew about my dissected mosquitoes, which were partly examined without a cover-glass; and the result was that swarms of flies and of 'eye-flies' - minute little insects which try to get into one's ears and eyelids - tormented me at their pleasure

  Ronald Ross

  Eye, Dark, Science

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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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• That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Science, Law

  Mark Twain (2012). “Three by Twain: Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arther's Court”, p.63, Graphic Arts Books

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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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• No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

  Robert Zuppke

  Leadership, Sports, Football

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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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• Critics have noted Schwarzenegger's only previous government experience was serving under President Bush senior as Chairman of the Council of Physical Fitness, a largely symbolic office, where Schwarzenegger's only responsibility was doing hundreds of jumping jacks he was going to do anyway.

  Jon Stewart

  Senior, Responsibility, Jumping

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• The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

  Ed Markey

  Country, Party, Rights

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• I know he's retired, but I'm a big fan of Shaquille O'Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, 'This is not real, this couldn't belong to a human being.' But he is human!

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Real, Thinking, Games

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• I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Trying, Schedules, Want

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