No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars.
~By Rob Paulsen ~
This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.
~By Robert Shea ~
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
~By James Laughlin ~
I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.
~By Carl Karcher ~
Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
~By Galen Rowell ~
Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
~By Yahoo Serious ~
The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.
~By Virgil Goode ~
In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!
~By Andrew Oliver ~
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
~By Charles Lamb ~
The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
~By Dean Acheson ~
Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.
~By James Hillman ~
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
~By Mary Frances Berry ~
I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
~By James Longstreet ~
Only the Russian Cultural Officer was interested in my project.
~By Wolfgang Staudte ~
The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.
~By Bobby Darin ~
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
~By Katharine Whitehorn ~
I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in.
~By Ivanka Trump ~
My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
~By Marc Garneau ~
I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.
~By Lynn Westmoreland ~
My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.
~By Ryan Reynolds ~
There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Nearly all Italian officers speak French.
~By Hugh Dalton ~
By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?
~By Howard Fineman ~
The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.
~By John Buford ~
I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.
~By Trent Lott ~
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
~By Arthur Hiller ~
We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.
~By Jane Harman ~
You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
~By Florence E. Allen ~
Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
~By Bruno Schulz ~
My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.
~By Douglass North ~
We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.
~By Charles Rangel ~
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.
~By Rick Perry ~
We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.
~By John Spratt ~
We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
~By James Hillman ~
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
~By Earl Wilson ~
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.
~By Kenneth Robert Livingstone ~
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.
~By Ralph Allen ~
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.
~By John Olver ~
The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.
~By William Scranton ~
After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.
~By James Tobin ~
I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.
~By Georgie Fame ~
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
~By Robert Welch ~
With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.
~By Louis Auchincloss ~
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
~By Harrison Ford ~
Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.
~By Neil LaBute ~
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.
~By Jim Cooper ~
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
~By A. C. Benson ~
I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.
~By Denzel Washington ~
I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
~By Orville Redenbacher ~
I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.
~By Mary Hart ~
Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
~By Jim Jeffords ~
Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.
~By William Kunstler ~
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.
~By Judy Biggert ~
I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.
~By Sarah Palin ~
I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
~By Ed Gillespie ~
I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them.
~By Jason Mewes ~
A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.
~By Tony Curtis ~
Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
~By Paracelsus ~
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
~By James Levine ~
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
~By Felix Adler ~
This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.
~By John Scarlett ~
The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.
~By Rosa DeLauro ~
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.
~By Laura Dern ~
Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.
~By Pola Negri ~
Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.
~By Pete Rozelle ~
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
~By Samuel Dash ~
I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.
~By Rick Boucher ~
I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.
~By Rob Corddry ~
We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.
~By Joshua A. Norton ~
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
~By Charles Edward Montague ~
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.
~By Russ Feingold ~
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.
~By Lizzie Andrew Borden ~
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
~By Eliza Farnham ~
I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
~By Mako ~
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
~By Claude Adrien Helvetius ~
The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.
~By Richard Price ~
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