“[I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation.” MenWorldBoysCoupleOfficeHundredDesperationPublicationClevelandHopefulness Author:Michael Chabon
“My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.” YearsBookStatesYoungActingAirPositionBrotherDutyOfficeHundredDignityDollarsAbsenceIgnorantTitlesMy BrotherTerritoryGovernorsSecretaryMajestySalaryGrandeurEighteenImposingEnviedNevadaTreasurer Book:10 Books in 1 Source: 10 Books in 1
“Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.” StillsAgeEffectsCenturyGeniusOfficeHundredNewspapersPermanentSimilarityEphemeral Book:Mosses from an Old Manse...: In Two Parts Source: Mosses from an Old Manse...: In Two Parts
“The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.” YearsMindMomentsPoliticalCoursesPoliticsDecisionInfluenceEventsOfficeHundredCriticalCornyCommonplaceCritical Moments Book:Thomas Hardy Source: Thomas Hardy
“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.” ThinkingFirstsWellsMeanVoiceMillionsWeekOfficeHundredDollarsBoxesCompareBullyAntsMillion DollarsJimmyBox OfficeNeutrons Author:Rob Paulsen
“[The Office] is incredible. It's slightly overwhelming because you don't think that anything you do....having anybody enjoy what you do is such a treat and so I know I've said this a hundred times but we owe it all to our writers.” ThinkingKnowsSaidEnjoyOfficeHundredTreatsIncrediblesOverwhelming Author:John Krasinski
“Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after the industrial revolution. We went from a culture that lived out doors and expanded the frontier and fought the Indians to a bunch of guys in offices. So football provided this jolt, a kind of exalted cult of masculinity. And it still does that. Perhaps even more so today.” MenYearsKindDoeStillsTodayGuyCultureDoorsFootballRevolutionNeededOfficeHundredYears AgoBunchFiftyCultMasculinityFrontiersExaltedManlyIndustrial Revolution Author:Steve Almond
“We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.” PeopleTryingYearsStillsTwoWholeMovingNumbersRichNiceStupidSweetBecomingTomorrowOfficeHundredPoliceComplexesAffairWhole LifeWeatherChiefsGood TimesIsolatedWiserHarvestAccustomedLove AffairGood Weather Author:Anton Chekhov
“Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.” IfsKnowsHas BeensUseMightMillionsShareOfficeHundredCommunismProductiveApartmentFurnitureMight Have BeenPizzaSneakersRoommate Author:Daniel Suarez
“I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will make me feel better or keep me alive? Well, there never was anything he could say, that's the funny thing. It was all the stupid, desperately optimistic, condescending things he didn't say that kept me alive; all the compassion and wamrth I felt from him that could not have been said; all the intelligence, competence, and time he put into it; and his granite belief that mine was a life worth living.” ThinkingFeelsWellsHas BeensSaidEarthRememberBeliefFeltCompassionAliveStupidMinesMonthsOfficeHundredSittingOptimisticFeel BetterCompetenceFunny ThingsWorth LivingGrimLife Worth LivingCondescendingGraniteMake Me Feel Better Author:Kay Redfield Jamison