I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.
Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?
Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.
Occasionally, there are programmes - like 'The Office' or 'Gavin and Stacey,' perhaps - where you get the feeling everybody's seen it.
We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.
The history of the office of First Lady had not been kind to those with mental health issues.
I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss.
We need to encourage young women to run for office and become civic leaders in their own communities.
In 2009, the American Library Association recorded 460 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom.
Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.
There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'
When I was elected to Congress, I made a commitment to my constituents that my office would set the standard to be open and transparent.
I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.
I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
Quite frankly, I don't want someone with the temperament of a middle school pubescent boy in the president's office.
One of the shows I would very much love to be a part of is 'Mad Men' - walking around that office.
When you do what you're supposed to do and don't complain much, I think the fans, media, players and front office appreciate and respect that.
I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do so.
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Our philosophy always teaches us that you can have intense activity, but inside, you have to have peace. The office has to reflect that.
The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.
He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.
I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.
I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
If I played today, I'd stay in trouble. I'd be in the commissioner's office all the time, I guess. I'd be everywhere - including where I wasn't supposed to be.
The first day in office I guess is Tuesday, right? God willing, I'll get sworn in and I won't blow that.
If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.
Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.
I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
People in the legal field are always surprised when they learn I'm a Raiderette. I don't broadcast it; I don't have my team poster in the office.
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.
I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don’t have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.
My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
I have never subscribed to the idea that it's necessary to greet someone in the office by wrapping arms and touching backs.
I have great respect for the office of the presidency and I really do believe that Donald Trump wants to do a good job.
I'm the worst in The Office. It's a problem. They've had to shut down the set for like 30 minutes because of me.
Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.
The funny thing about 'Office Space' is I almost never get my lines quoted back to me.
The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!
I have this particular shoe with blood stains, marked all up sitting in my office. I always look at it everyday.
Barack Obama is a street corner community organizer who is using the office of the presidency here to virtually undermine it.
The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the
To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
Every day, I think of designs, but I don't write them down, and I forget. If only I had an office.
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.
How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.
This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.
I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.
If I worked in a cubicle, I wouldn't want to leave work and see all 20 people from my office when I got home.
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.
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