Office Box Number

Famous quotes containing the words office, box and/or number:

“The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation.... He is the world’s eye.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

“After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.”
—Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)