Dennis Quaid Quotes

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!

I don't ever want to have a job where I just punch a clock.

I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

When you work in TV long enough, you tend to get a little jaded with different things you have to deal with.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.

I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.

I'm a hard-working girl. I go to the office. I work a normal 9 to 5 job most days.

When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to me, they loved me, I was like their mascot, but I just couldn't stand working in an office. I just hated it. And so one day I went in and said, 'I'm sorry, this is my two-weeks notice, I'm quitting to become an artist.'

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.

I'd never be tied down for five years interviewing TV personalities.

Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team.

No doubt, every job has repetitive aspects.

If I had to work a 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. job in the public service, I'd freak out.