Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Agnes Repplier

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

Alan Ladd

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

Alan Keyes

The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that... at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so.

Charlie Crist

Crist noted that his office has received multiple fraud complaints in which potential buyers said they lost thousands of dollars. I don't know if we've seen anything of this exact nature before, .. We won't tolerate it.

Charles Sumner

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

Charles Edison

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

Charles Caleb Colton

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

Charles Dickens

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

Brian Wansink

Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.

Chuck Pagano

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

Markus Zusak

You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.

Fernando Pessoa

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

Vijay Mallya

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

Robert Orben

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

William Matthews

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

Sarah Rees Brennan

If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She eyed Jared speculatively

Zac Efron

I'm enjoying where I'm at in my life and I feel like I'm learning a lot on a daily basis. I'm learning without having to be behind a desk, so it's a pretty cool place to be.

Joe Dumars

We have no plans to do anything with Derrick at the moment.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Mullah Dadullah

We have plans for more of the same.

Ricky Gervais

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Jim Wilkinson

We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.

Peter Ashkenaz

We have a short time to be working with the plans to make sure the beneficiaries get the information. Some plans are already doing it.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.