Officescape Quotes & Sayings

She finds the door wide open and the place empty, another failed dotcom joining the officescape of the time - tarnished metallic surfaces, shaggy gray soundproofing, Steelcase screens and Herman Miller workpods - already beginning to decompose, littered, dust gathering . . . Well, almost empty. From some distant cubicle comes a tinny electronic melody Maxine recognizes as "Korobushka," the anthem of nineties workplace fecklessness, playing faster and faster and accompanied by screams of anxiety. Ghost vendor indeed. Has she entered some supernatural timewarp where the shades of office layabouts continue to waste uncountable person-hours playing Tetris? Between that and Solitaire for Windows, no wonder the tech sector tanked. — Thomas Pynchon

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting. — John Boyega

I know he's been looking forward to this
and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard. — David Levithan

You won't write, won't ya??
I just focus on the negative! — Deyth Banger

Men who had the capacity to apologize - and who knew the right words with which to do it - were few and far between. — Faith Hunter

But grief let loose from a woman who lost a child - that was the worst type of grief of all. — Bernice L. McFadden

Look, it's three to one and your hands are tied' 'You're right,'Reyna growled.'Get another six of you in here and it might be a fair fight — Rick Riordan

I'd love to see the secondary markets become more widespread in terms of their adoption. — Peter Barris

When you find yourself ready to complain about what you don't have, stop for a moment to consider what incredible things you do have. And resolve to make the most of it all. — Ralph Marston

Similarity of opinion is not always - I think not often - needed for fullness and perfection of love. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I smashed all the windows in my ex-boyfriend's truck." "You did what?" I couldn't have heard her correctly. That did not happen in real life. Country songs, yes. Real life, no way. — Abbi Glines

His eyes narrowed. "Is this where the elephants come in? Because there was something about elephants in that French book. — J. Kathleen Cheney