Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Hillman

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

Mike Duke

I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.

Kevin P. Ryan

I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.

Ice Cube

You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.

Bill Brandt

For the kids, there are procedures in place to get them safely to and from school, ... We'll have an officer there, and (FEC) will have a flagman there.

Alice Schwarzer

For the first time a woman is campaigning for the office of chancellor. And that is not supposed to play a role for us women?

Imtiaz Ali

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

Gloria Swanson

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

J. M. Coetzee

If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.

Gary Hamel

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

Jerry Brown

I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

Horace Mann

To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

I don't like him. I would like to see him out of office.

Hu Jintao

Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.

Jackie Chan

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

Ella Baker

When I went to the Association [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] I learned a few things by observation. One of the things that used to strike me was [Walter White] need to impress people, even just people who came into the office.

Ella Baker

[Walter White] had keep [people] waiting while you got the impression that he was terribly busy with calls to Washington. I've seen such exhibitions in that direction as having someone come out of his office to the switchboard operator - which at that time was sort of located in the center of wherever people were waiting - and ask to call such-and-such a place, or a call through to Mr. So-and-so, or somebody like this, you see.

Ella Baker

After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.

Park Chan-wook

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

Lauren Myracle

Is he a sophomore?" Lydia says. "Please tell me he's in our grade." "I don't know," I say. "But weren't you there when he came to the office?" Peyton says. "The secretary didn't get out her bullhorn and announce what grade he's in. She just took him to meet Headmaster Perkins.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Mitt Romney

We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.

Neve Campbell

I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.

R. L. Stine

I have a great office.

Mike Pence

There are millions more people living in poverty today than the day that Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton at his side, stepped into the oval office.

Oren Peli

I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

Olivia Williams

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

Ken Livingstone

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.

Mae West

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Method Man

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.

Martin Filler

The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight.