Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace Mann

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

Kofi Annan

Washington will not put an American officer on the ground.

Jay Asher

Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.

Gail Sheehy

Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes to be turned out of the mayor's office by virtue of his election to the United States Senate.

It was a tragedy that if you had 50 officers standing around, it probably wouldn't have made a difference.

It will be a quiet office without him. Think of all these years we didn't have to pay for entertainment.

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.

Janet Evanovich

If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.

Jane Mayer

The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have.

Jane Lynch

I work with this wonderful five-piece band, The Tony Guerrero Quintet, along with Kate Flannery, who was Meredith the Drunk in The Office, and Tim Davis, who was the vocal arranger on Glee. The three of us sing, and the band is amazing. We've been working together for about two years. So, we decided to do a Christmas album in July.

Jane Porter

But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. The pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.

Esther Williams

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

Henry David Thoreau

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

Henry David Thoreau

If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

Chris Hayes

Now, in an analysis of campaign finance filings by Politico we learned the [Donald] Trump campaign has paid Trump businesses more than $8 million so far in this race, that includes $1.3 million in rent for campaign offices, half a million for food and facilities for events, over $300,000 for corporate staffers, and nearly $6 million for the use of Trump`s private plane.

In any police agency, we've had times where an officer leaves. We subpoena them and have them testify about their investigation in court.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.

Jon Stewart

It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.

Katherine Harris

No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

Harvey Gantt

There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayors office.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

He walked out of the office to find Kevin Daley standing there. 'I like your style,' Kevin said. Thank you,' Alex said. 'I like it, too.

Stephen Root

The ratio of people to cake is too big.

Peter Lynch

I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'

Peter Lynch

The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

Robert Byrd

If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

Michel de Montaigne

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

Mose Allison

I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.

Johnny Depp

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.