Office Box Number

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

    “Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    “He holds the wire from this box of nerves
    Praising the moral error
    Of birth and death, the two sad knaves of thieves,
    And the hunger’s emperor;
    He pulls the chain, the cistern moves.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Ah, but to play man number one,
    To drive the dagger in his heart,
    To lay his brain upon the board
    And pick the acrid colors out,
    To nail his thought across the door,
    Its wings spread wide to rain and snow,
    To strike his living hi and ho....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)