Top 69 Cubicle Quotes
#1. You know what a cubicle basically says? It basically says, like, 'You know what? We don't think you're smart enough for an office, but we don't want you to look at anybody.
Bill Burr
#2. The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.
Charlie Huston
#3. God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.
John Ortberg
#4. They started the meeting out by saying, "Everybody please take your seats"
I was halfway back to my cubicle with mine before they stopped me ...
Neil Leckman
#5. For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.
Jerry Seinfeld
#6. I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.
Gerard Way
#7. If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.
Rob Payne
#8. Winston glanced across the hall. In the corresponding cubicle on the other side a small, precise-looking, dark-chinned man named Tillotson was working steadily away, with a folded newspaper on his knee and his mouth very close to the mouthpiece of the speakwrite.
George Orwell
#9. In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries.
David Sax
#10. I've seen far too many Christians who are more than willing to travel halfway around the world to volunteer for a week in an orphanage, but who cannot bring themselves to take the personal risk of sharing Jesus with the co-worker who sits day after day in the cubicle right next to them.
Lee Strobel
#11. the goal of schools shouldn't be to manufacture "productive citizens" to fill some corporate cubicle; it should be to inspire each child to find a "calling" that will change the world.
Clark Aldrich
#12. If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.
Isaac Asimov
#13. Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential.
Tom Rath
#14. I work in a giant building:
forty floors and forty cubicles
per wing, four wings per floor,
one person and one personal
computer per cubicle, a labyrinth
in which everyone's goal is to stay lost.
John Engman
#15. collected promotional mugs for all eight of the banks which collapsed beneath me. I lined them up in each new cubicle like heads on poles outside of a cannibal village. My resume was a graveyard of once powerful institutions.
Jeremy Robert Johnson
#16. I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
Walter Mosley
#18. And I was just there, less than an hour ago, debugging subroutines in my cubicle, when a motherfucking Earth Defense Alliance shuttle suddenly shows up and lands right outside my office building! I figured I must be losing it. Now I'm not sure what to think.
Ernest Cline
#19. With reference to the younger generation ... "If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."
Anna Quindlen
#20. I showed her my cubicle of commercial artistry, and drew her attention to my latest project. "Oh, that's lovely," she said when I pointed out the drawing of a nymph with flowers in her freshly shampooed hair. "That's really nice." That "nice" remark almost spoiled my day.
Thomas Ligotti
#21. The difficulty of learning spoken English for a person profoundly deaf from an early age has been likened to a hearing American trying to learn spoken Japanese while locked within a soundproof glass cubicle.
Andrew Solomon
#22. That was what collaboration meant for Steve Woz: the ability to share a donut and a brainwave with his laid-back, nonjudgmental, poorly dressed colleagues - who minded not a whit when he disappeared into his cubicle to get the real work done.
Susan Cain
#23. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.
Tom Rath
#24. Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it ... I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.
Sarah Kay
#25. In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.
Scott Adams
#26. But the next morning, while night owls slept, I climbed trembling to her cubicle and woke her, weeping aloud with a crazed love that lasted until it was carried away without mercy by the violent wind of real life.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#27. 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.
Kevin P. Ryan
#28. The only decoration on the gray segments of her cubicle was a bumper sticker, AT LEAST THE WAR ON THE ENVIRONMENT IS GOING WELL. Her colleagues' cubicles were covered with photos
Jonathan Franzen
#29. I did an internship in the Silicon Valley during the Internet boom. I couldn't imagine sitting in a cubicle the rest of my life, so I gave acting a try. I would have been happy doing theater and making nothing.
Justin Chon
#30. If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.
Seth Godin
#31. Nobody sane loves working in an office, It's against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.
Peter Clines
#32. Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
Gene Luen Yang
#33. There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.
Charles Bukowski
#34. If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.
Paul Banks
#35. I can win anytime. Kevin's going to go back to Burbank and tell everybody in his cubicle how he won at the Golden Nugget. Sometimes the pot isn't the money.
Heidi Cullinan
#36. It's a beautiful thing, to my people who keep an impressive wingspan, even when the cubicle shrink.
Aesop Rock
#37. Candy bar companies, through commercials, have tied their products to low-energy cues, transforming what was once a dessert into a pick-me-up for cubicle dwellers.
Charles Duhigg
#38. left my box of cubicle gear in the trunk, stashed like a dead body. I pasted on a smile and walked into the house. My mother was just hanging up the phone and looked exultant. "Guess what?" she said.
Sandra Byrd
#39. Diane turned and pointed in the direction of Evan's cubicle. But instead of a cubicle, there was a fern and an empty chair beneath a framed photo of a cloud. She wasn't sure which cloud it was.
Joseph Fink
#40. Lowell's cubicle at the office was slightly larger than a toilet stall, but no higher, and although the door said MANAGING EDITOR, Lowell always felt that the words had been printed there in the same spirit that moves service-station operators to paint KING on the door of the men's privy
L.J. Davis
#41. This avatar appeared inside a huge virtual call center, inside a virtual cubicle, sitting at a virtual desk, in front of a virtual computer, wearing a virtual phone headset. I thought of this place as my own private virtual hell.
Ernest Cline
#42. Hewlett Packard at one point had only three private offices. One belonged to Hewlett, one to Packard, and the third to a guy named Paul Ely who annoyed so many coworkers with his bellowing on the phone that the company finally extended his cubicle walls to the ceiling.
Robert X. Cringely
#43. f you don't think outside of the box, you may just get stuck inside of a cubicle.
Eric Vance Walton
#44. The Mormons had been planning to run the human race's first extrasolar colony from a place that would have been equally at home as an accounting office. It felt anticlimactic. Hello, welcome to your centuries-long voyage to build a human settlement around another star! Here's your cubicle.
James S.A. Corey
#45. Love doesn't make you run away. Love makes you come back.
Siri Mitchell
#46. I've always been afraid that someone would steal my identity some day and be more successful at being me than I am!!
Neil Leckman
#47. Overheard vampire conversation.
"Is that Ophelia?"
"yep"
"She doesn't look well"
"Ever since she drank from that hemophiliac everything just goes right through her.
Neil Leckman
#48. Headstones:
What I asked was, "Would you MARRY me?!!"
"This time I'll count to one hundred and you hide."
"OK, It's not funny anymore let me out!!
Neil Leckman
#49. I think that last batch of sea monkeys ate my cat!!!
Neil Leckman
#50. How to contact in case of an emergency?
I prefer 911 myself ...
Neil Leckman
#51. One of the joys of being a grandparent is giving your grandchild caffeinated sugary drinks late in the day, and sending them home. Do you have any idea how many years I had to wait for that?
Neil Leckman
#52. Bad answers for employment questions:
Employer: I see here that you worked for the state for three years. Why did you leave that job?
My parole was granted
Neil Leckman
#53. Why is ground round sold in a square package?
Neil Leckman
#54. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges soaking up so much water.
Neil Leckman
#55. I am open to comments, I accept with with all humility, or at least what I can muster at short notice.
Neil Leckman
#56. A major reason many Americans still struggle to find meaningful work is because they are using tactics from the 1990s and early 2000s. The future for employment is now here...and it's online."
~February 21, 2013 as featured by CBS Money Watch
Matt Keener
#57. You know what they say. One man's joke is another man's brother
Neil Leckman
#58. If you sleep with one eye open are your dreams only half as good as everyone elses?
Neil Leckman
#59. I think what I need to do is stay awake while I'm sleeping so I can see what I'm dreaming better!!
Neil Leckman
#60. Sometimes I wake up and wonder if those chalk outlines they have at murder scenes get together for holiday parties ...
Neil Leckman
#61. When I was little and my mom got mad at me she would always say, "You know you can be replaced".
I have often wondered if I was.
Neil Leckman
#62. Has anybody ever written a horror pop-up book? The center of the book pops up and opens the gate to the elder gods. Of course you'll want to shrink wrap these books because you want people to buy them before they get sucked into another dimension.
Neil Leckman
#63. We started our journey across the waistlands by folowing the enormous belt!!
Neil Leckman
#64. I flunked out of mime school. I could never hear what the instructor was saying!!!
Neil Leckman
#65. They say you don't know what you don't know until you know that you don't know it.
Neil Leckman
#66. I like to provide American humor for British soccer coaches when possible. During keeper practice I'll offer to stand behind the goal and shag a few balls!!
Neil Leckman
#67. If I were a candy bar I'd want to be a snicker, because then I'd have the last laugh!!
Neil Leckman
#68. Bad questions at employment interviews:
Is your drug test graded on a curve?
Neil Leckman
#69. My oldest son used to say his stomach had angries when he felt sick.
I always pictured an all night fight club for finger foods!!
Neil Leckman
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