No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. - John Adams At first, I could lie about my lack of sleep and she'd fall for it, but she started suspecting insomnia when I began seeing purple elephants in the air vents at the office. I knew I shouldn't have asked her about them. I thought maybe she'd redecorated. - Darynda Jones The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. - Felix Adler 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 Adorno I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. - Harry S Truman We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor? - Jodi Picoult...

She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male. - James Joyce I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those. - Bernardo Bertolucci Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron. - Lizzie Andrew Borden Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in. - Susie Bright In the morning I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did. (Post Office, pg. 196) - Charles Bukowski About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota. - Ch...

The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl.. - Charles M Schulz In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper. - Graydon Carter I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power. - Kenneth Clarke When you're out of office, you can be a statesman. - John Connally The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. - Henry A Kissinger The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments. - Nathaniel Hawthorne Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard ...

Even at the timetwenty years oldI said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant) - Isaac Babel We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. - Calvin Coolidge Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk? - Rahm Emanuel

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.' - Lee Child Am I to assume you would rather not have us as clients?" "Let me think about that for a nanosecond," Dickie said. "Yes! Last time you were in my office you tried to kill me." "That's an exaggeration. Maim you, yes. Kill you, probably not." - Janet Evanovich If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office. -Ranger - Janet Evanovich After I chased the werewolf and the vampire out of my office, I changed my clothes. - Ilona Andrews You should name him Fezzik," Andrea said. "Inconceivable," I told her and took the canine traitor back to my office. - Ilona Andrews I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my off...

Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the front office results, pleading, yelling, cajoling, pacing, working his facial expressions for instant effects - anger, satisfaction, concern. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward - Carl Bernstein It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field. - John Elway Having already funneled its students to their respective classrooms, the school's front hall was empty, its glass showcase in the same neglected spot outside the front office.... She looked at it briefly, her eyes sweeping over the faces of students whose adult trajectories would lead them either to gloss over these moments or to spend their lives pining for their return. - Myla Goldberg I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. The...