Top 100 Quotes For The Office
#1. If you always use your stapler in one place, keep it there, instead of thinking that all the office supplies should go in one place. I've moved a lot of things around in my house because of that.
Gretchen Rubin
#2. I usually wear casual clothes to the office. I wear a suit maybe two or three times a month, and usually only when I need to meet with the head office.
Hideo Kojima
#3. Soon I will return to the office, to shuffle paper, delete emails and avoid the Typing Dead.
Fennel Hudson
#4. 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
#5. He doesn't look like a gangster, but then he's not the office worker type, either ... some kind of entrepreneur maybe, or, - wait, I've got it! He looks like he writes manga! Either that or a chiropractor, I guess.
Banana Yoshimoto
#6. I'm a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love 'The Office' - I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version.
Brad Paisley
#7. A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.
Paul Dickson
#8. One time an employee brought cakes to the office to celebrate her daughter's passing the exam, whereas another coincidentally fell "sick" when her child repeatedly failed the entrance exams.
Felix Abt
#9. Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction
Bertie Ahern
#10. We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.
Irving Kaplansky
#11. My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.
Wallace Shawn
#12. 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.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#13. If you don't feel drowsy after lunch and don't yawn in the office, you're not a perfect employee!
Himmilicious
#14. Everyone is called, everyone is sent out ... The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the supermarket and in the stairwell, i.e., in the places of everyday life.
Pope Francis
#15. It's what I say all the time to my girls in the office here: The more they dress for sex, the less they will have love or sex.
Miuccia Prada
#16. Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn't have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carell's character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto.
Steve Carell
#17. The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.
Mark McKinnon
#18. If a faerie, a vampire, and a demon walk into a bar, you wait for the punch line. At Private Eye, when a faerie, a vampire, and a demon walk through the door, it's just another day at the office.
E.J. Stevens
#19. On Sundays, I'm up at five and in the office by six. After the show, around midday, I flip the switch, and it's all family. Our kids play sports, so we're running around.
David Gregory
#20. No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
John Adams
#21. I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.
Hillary Clinton
#22. How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
Stephen Covey
#23. I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
Barbara Walters
#24. My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.
David Ulevitch
#25. Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.
Rush Limbaugh
#26. When people ask if I'm going to be sad that 'The Office' is over, they don't even understand the depth of that question for me. It's an era of my life. No one would have known my name if it wasn't for the show.
John Krasinski
#27. You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.
Jim Thompson
#28. If the office in the Rua dos Douradores represents Life for me, the second floor room I live in on that same street represents Art. Yes, Art, living on the same street as Life but in a different room; Art, which offers relief from life without actually relieving one of living.
Fernando Pessoa
#29. We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
Albert Camus
#31. Real-World Example = Don't constantly complain about the work conditions. (It's too bright, it's too dark, it's too cold, I wish it smelled more like cinnamon.) A simple rule of thumb to remember is, "Unless there's a live cobra in the office, I'll be all right.
Jon Acuff
#32. There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#33. One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.
Marcel Duchamp
#34. Videographer stopped taping and looked me up and down as if he found me lacking but wasn't quite sure how. Then it hit him. "Don't you have a gun?" He glanced around the office as if there might be one hanging on a wall hook.
Robert Crais
#35. What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
Nathan Sawaya
#36. Of course, while Katherine took the accolades in stride, she never took the work for granted. Not a morning dawned that she didn't wake up eager to get to the office. The passion that she had for her job was a gift, one that few people ever experienced.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#37. Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.
Chelsea Cain
#38. Since the beginning of LearnVest, I've never left the office for food.
Alexa Von Tobel
#39. CNN, a part of the Time Warner company, lives for news about everything and anyone. In the office, the bosses openly discuss the need for a diverse staff and diverse stories, and each time we draw new viewers, the effort intensifies.
Soledad O'Brien
#40. Lee has surveillance on Fortnum's, cameras and bugs, twenty-four seven. He put it in when I was going through my drama and never took it out. The boys at the office watch for security purposes and ... um, for kicks." I stared at her.
"You're joking," I breathed.
Kristen Ashley
#41. Directing 'The Office' is kind of like someone going, 'Would you like to drive my Lamborghini?' And I'm like 'Yes, I would like to drive your Lamborghini. That sounds like fun.'
Jason Reitman
#42. From the CEO to the receptionist to the office manager, everybody at your startup business should know that one-minute elevator pitch.
Timi Nadela
#43. No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.
Nikita Khrushchev
#44. I've enjoyed an endless supply of free paper, paperclips, envelopes, and office supplies since joining The Office, because I steal props on a regular basis.
Mindy Kaling
#46. I'm someone who's always on the go and crazy busy, so I like to keep snacks in my car and at the office, and Cracker Jack'd is a really yummy snack that I love. I definitely am a big snacker.
Ashley Tisdale
#47. Discipline at the office had long been enforced by use of three methods: the meeting of the first kind, the meeting of the second kind, and the meeting of the third kind.
Pawan Mishra
#48. I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.
Ben Marcus
#49. The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Laurence Olivier
#50. For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.
Alex Pareene
#51. Hillary Clinton is getting a little bit of controversy because she has the most expensive hometown office rent - over $500,000 a year. She's in a one-year lease in the office, as opposed to her marriage, which is on a month-to-month.
Jay Leno
#52. Be patient? That's all you've got for me?" Steve complained ten minutes later.
Kylie glanced up at Perry, circling them as they sat behind the office, and then frowned at Steve. "I don't know why everyone thinks I'm the love guru.
C.C. Hunter
#53. Around then Jade happened by again. "Thought that was you," Doc said, "though we ain't exactly been wallerin in eye contact. Got your note at the office, but why'd you go runnin away like that? we could've hung out, you know, smoke some shit.
Thomas Pynchon
#54. I think up to a point people's characters depend on the toilets they have to shut themselves up in every day. You get home from the office and you find the toilet green with mould, marshy: so you smash a plate of peas in the passage and you shut yourself in your room and scream.
Italo Calvino
#55. I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.
Ray Kroc
#56. Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.
Ray Davies
#57. During the whole funding process they said, 'We're interested in you guys because of your management team; we think you're fantastic ... ' Two weeks later they pull me into the office - before even the first board meeting - and say, 'We want to replace you as CEO.'
Mark Fletcher
#58. Sometimes it was important simply to get out. It did not matter where you went, as long as you got out of the office, or the kitchen, or any other place where duty required you to be, and went to some place that you did not have to be.
Alexander McCall Smith
#59. There is always one person in the office that you want to whip their ass! If you don't know who it is, it is probably you.
D. L. Hughley
#60. Nothing worth having comes easy is not about showing up early at the office. It's about showing up in your own life. And living inside the very moment you want to run away from.
Augusten Burroughs
#61. It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.
Theodor W. Adorno
#62. 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
#63. It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
Andrew Carnegie
#64. Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov
#65. I hurried through the drizzle back to the office, looking forward to the refuge of my book. Like so many books before, it would take me into another world. I needed that.
Heather Haven
#66. I'm very proud of 'The Office' - it was one of the best things I'll ever do. But you do become a slight victim of your own success in the sense that people think that's you, that's what you are, and that's what you'll play forever.
Martin Freeman
#67. never had his dad around growing up. Jim spent more hours at the office running LightPulse than he did at home, and his three ex-wives
Ernie Lindsey
#68. Make use of all free time at the office and elsewhere for chanting your mantra or reading spiritual books. Avoid indulging in unnecessary gossip and try to talk about spiritual subjects with others.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#69. The secret was loyalty to the White House and to the Presidency, rather than to whoever happens to be occupying the office for four years, or eight.
J.B. West
#70. Yellow police tape stretched across the motel room door. I stood beside it, waiting for Mr. Stick-Up-His-Butt to finish up in the office.
Kim Harrington
#71. Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#72. With daylight (it was exactly a week since he last dressed for the office) he found himself passing through farmland over which a light snow had fallen ahead of him, softening, smoothing some of the rudeness, but not enough to hide the truth that nothing was planted.
Douglas Woolf
#73. It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Ulysses S. Grant
#74. The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#75. It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one's judgement.
Sara Sheridan
#76. I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.
Pranab Mukherjee
#77. I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.
Gail Collins
#78. Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?
Sebastian Junger
#79. He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.
William C. Bryant
#80. Silly stress at the office or exam-related anxiety become less threatening when we refuse to let them affect us so personally.
Giulia Enders
#81. When I worked in the Department of Justice, in the office of the solicitor general, it was my job to argue cases for the United States before the Supreme court. I always found it very moving to stand before the justices and say, 'I speak for my country.'
John Roberts
#82. Bringing a pot plant to the office, I believe, is a sign of quite serious commitment.
Danielle Wood
#83. A man's soft laughter echoed in the hall by the kitchen and she heard the rush of someone darting past the office. Somehow she felt comforted and didn't bother to turn around. The next afternoon, Emily moved into History House.
Judith Baller-Fabian
#84. Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.
Kate Flannery
#85. My circus train pulls through the night
Full of lions and trapeze artists
I'm done with elephants and clowns
I want to run away and join the office
Mike Doughty
#86. I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.
Harold Pinter
#87. I absolutely love '30 Rock' and 'The Office,' but I don't know how many 13-year-olds are watching that stuff.
Justine Bateman
#88. Some folks in the office said I should explain in my complaint that I was a civil rights attorney working on police misconduct cases. It seemed to me that no one should need those kinds of credentials to complain about misconduct by police officers.
Bryan Stevenson
#89. ....and Colin threw his head back to let out a laugh so loud and brazen in its bum-lickery that it resonated through the office window.
Michael Logan
#90. I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
Zaha Hadid
#91. They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.
John Calvin
#92. My dad said it best when he said, "John, on your deathbed you will never wish you spent more time at the office." So I started spending a little more time at home. I settled into a pretty good, if ordinary, existence.
Robin S. Sharma
#93. Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley
#94. This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.
Alexander Hamilton
#95. Kelly was starting to have serious second thoughts about the whole assignment. Like all war correspondents, she supposed. Being on the ground was very different to sitting in the office anticipating being on the ground. Especially with the appearance of that red cloud.
Peter F. Hamilton
#96. Bastien's gaze dropped to Terri's behind as he followed her out of the office. He was beginning to understand Lucern's fascination with Kate's behind. Not that he found Kate's rear end fascinating, but Terri's? Well, that was another matter.
Lynsay Sands
#97. So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.
Charles Krauthammer
#98. If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
Richard M. Nixon
#99. I would encourage people that, if you are waiting for the end of 'The Office,' to re-tune in right away. It is the beginning of the end, where we start to break down what's going on with this documentary and see behind the scenes with who is involved.
Greg Daniels
#100. Her beauty effortlessly managed to arrest the pulse of each heart at the office and keep it in a dreamlike cage where she could have a look at each at her will and derive pleasure which, it had to be said, was a touch malicious in nature.
Pawan Mishra
