Quotes about Desk

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk. Votes: 3

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment. Votes: 3

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. Votes: 3

Later that day when I passed the Admin lieutenant and the Sargeant standing by the Desk, I said casually, "I'm leaving too, Sarge.""Okay," he said, and I kept on walking. Votes: 3

You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories. Votes: 3

I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel. Votes: 3

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything. Votes: 2

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? Votes: 2

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. Votes: 2

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked. Votes: 2

If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general. Votes: 2

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. Votes: 2

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. Votes: 2

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. Votes: 2

My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk. Votes: 2

I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football. Votes: 2

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass. Votes: 2

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured. Votes: 2

Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list. Votes: 2

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity. Votes: 2

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness. Votes: 2

It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens. Votes: 2

I try to get seven hours of sleep every night; I always walk or bike to work; I make a point to eat well and take my vitamins; I drink tons of water; and I always spend a portion of my day at a standing desk. Votes: 2

I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination. Votes: 2

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. Votes: 2

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working. Votes: 2

You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do this better than anybody.' Votes: 2

On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.' Votes: 2

You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we were trying to hire directors, and this guy was like, 'I see you behind a glass desk.' I don't. And he's like, 'Yeah, the glass desk.' I go, 'I don't really see me as a glass desk guy.' Votes: 2

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version. Votes: 2

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless. Votes: 2

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue. Votes: 2

I sit at my desk Votes: 0

I was terrible at desk jobs. Votes: 0

I plan to die at my desk. Votes: 0

Responsibility always stops at the president's desk. Votes: 0

Why is a raven like a writing desk? Votes: 0

I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk. Votes: 0

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers. Votes: 0

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. Votes: 0

Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away. Votes: 0

You will never be on this anchor desk, because you're Chinese. Votes: 0

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job. Votes: 0

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job. Votes: 0

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. Votes: 0

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. Votes: 0

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work. Votes: 0

I don't have a Bloomberg on my desk. I don't care. Votes: 0

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life. Votes: 0

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk. Votes: 0

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. Votes: 0

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard. Votes: 0

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on. Votes: 0

I can walk around fine, but I don't have a desk job. Votes: 0

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five! Votes: 0

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater. Votes: 0

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel. Votes: 0

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job. Votes: 0

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. Votes: 0

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. Votes: 0

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk. Votes: 0

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M. Votes: 0

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk. Votes: 0

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day. Votes: 0

Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk. Votes: 0

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. Votes: 0

Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport Votes: 0

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous. Votes: 0

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write. Votes: 0

My pets are very supportive, as they curl up in their beds underneath my desk. Votes: 0

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them. Votes: 0

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach. Votes: 0

Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight. Votes: 0

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk. Votes: 0

A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk. Votes: 0

The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk. Votes: 0

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk. Votes: 0

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love. Votes: 0

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. Votes: 0

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad. Votes: 0

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. Votes: 0

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true. Votes: 0

I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk. Votes: 0

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there. Votes: 0

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes. Votes: 0

The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience. Votes: 0

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. Votes: 0

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. Votes: 0

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. Votes: 0

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove. Votes: 0

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job. Votes: 0

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk. Votes: 0

I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting. Votes: 0

I've got drinks piling up on my desk and a stack of pills I haven't even opened yet! Votes: 0

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write. Votes: 0

Dude,” I said, leaning over the desk, “I’m about as psychic as a carrot. Votes: 0

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. Votes: 0

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice Votes: 0

I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place. Votes: 0

No matter how busy you are make time to eat at a table. A desk is not a table. Votes: 0

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery. Votes: 0

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk? Votes: 0

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it. Votes: 0

Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost. Votes: 0

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. Votes: 0

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films. Votes: 0

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. Votes: 0

I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings. Votes: 0

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk. Votes: 0

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? Votes: 0

I'm even though I'm not per se sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time. Votes: 0

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. Votes: 0

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m. Votes: 0

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk. Votes: 0

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak. Votes: 0

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. Votes: 0

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. Votes: 0

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection. Votes: 0

My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk. Votes: 0

Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back! Votes: 0

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person. Votes: 0

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life. Votes: 0

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is? Votes: 0

Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket. Votes: 0

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library. Votes: 0

Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea. Votes: 0

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision. Votes: 0

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk. Votes: 0

I stood and walked around the desk so I could stand over him. Menacingly. Like Darth Vader, only with better lung capacity. Votes: 0

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. Votes: 0

The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more. Votes: 0

With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback. Votes: 0

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know? Votes: 0

The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk. Votes: 0

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk. Votes: 0

You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories. Votes: 0

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk. Votes: 0

'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late. Votes: 0

Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited. Votes: 0

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. Votes: 0

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk. Votes: 0

The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond. Votes: 0

Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends. Votes: 0

You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele) Votes: 0

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan! Votes: 0

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. Votes: 0

If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that. Votes: 0

If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I'd find different. Votes: 0

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk. Votes: 0

Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead. Votes: 0

Bush explained his strategy for transfer of power. It's a two part plan. Part one: clean out his desk. Part two: rent a U-Haul. Votes: 0

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. Votes: 0

For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness. Votes: 0

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk. Votes: 0

I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie? Votes: 0

When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous. Votes: 0

My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down. Votes: 0

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty. Votes: 0

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide. Votes: 0

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours. Votes: 0

Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting. Fabric shades are much softer. Votes: 0

Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes. Votes: 0

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place. Votes: 0

Given the consumer-pleasing politics of today's universities, I have, in effect, seventy new bosses each semester; they're sitting at the desk in front of me. Votes: 0

Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the esteem of others. Votes: 0

I've never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside. Votes: 0

I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before. Votes: 0

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk? Votes: 0

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. Votes: 0

He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie. Votes: 0

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station…. Votes: 0

Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars! Votes: 0

The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle. Votes: 0

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O! Votes: 0

I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk. Votes: 0

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night. Votes: 0

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk. Votes: 0

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made. Votes: 0

I finished 'Heartsick' with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised. Votes: 0

Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk. Votes: 0

Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you awake?" "No. Votes: 0

...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat. Votes: 0

In the office, Michael sat behind our father's desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak. Votes: 0

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again. Votes: 0

I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn't go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk. Votes: 0

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English. Votes: 0

I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see. Votes: 0

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available. Votes: 0

Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile. Votes: 0

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk. Votes: 0

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in. Votes: 0

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk. Votes: 0

It's amazing that I sit at my job all day and no one sees me clearly enough to say What is that boy doing behind a desk? Votes: 0

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is. Votes: 0

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. Votes: 0

When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path. Votes: 0

An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper. Votes: 0

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk. Votes: 0

Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. Votes: 0

My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk. Votes: 0

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. Votes: 0

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal. Votes: 0

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk. Votes: 0

Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK? Votes: 0

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time. Votes: 0

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés. Votes: 0

If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She eyed Jared speculatively Votes: 0

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk. Votes: 0

CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes, like leaving memos on the President's desk. Votes: 0

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. Votes: 0

Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life. Votes: 0

When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born. Votes: 0

I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don't have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room. Votes: 0

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit." Votes: 0

I've always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can't expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient. Votes: 0

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit. Votes: 0

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk. Votes: 0

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive. Votes: 0

My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet. Votes: 0

There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve. Votes: 0

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they're doing. People don't look at me. They don't even know I'm there. Votes: 0

Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk. Votes: 0

I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk. Votes: 0

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you', I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot. Votes: 0

I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again. Votes: 0

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. Votes: 0

I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise. Votes: 0

In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not. Votes: 0

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot. Votes: 0

I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too. Votes: 0

On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener. Votes: 0

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities. Votes: 0

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself. Votes: 0

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working. Votes: 0

Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk away from the desk he was so offended. Votes: 0

With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully. Votes: 0

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route. Votes: 0

My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided where every desk in the office should go, tried every product on our faces. Votes: 0

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new. Votes: 0

The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm". Votes: 0

Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years. Votes: 0

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon. Votes: 0

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it. Votes: 0

I met the girl who works at the Doubletree front desk, she gave me her number. It's ZERO. I tried to call from here, some other woman answered. "You sound older!" Votes: 0

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart. Votes: 0

I'd much rather be on stage talking to a couple of retards for twenty bucks than sitting at my desk thinking up jokes for...well let's say a few dollars more. Votes: 0

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. Votes: 0

My classroom is set up to accommodate the different types of assignments students do. Sitting at a single desk the entire class time just doesnt work for this type of class. Votes: 0

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book. Votes: 0

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff. Votes: 0

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue. Votes: 0

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives. Votes: 0

I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances. Votes: 0

Doing field trips rather than simply researching online allows me to experience the story from the point of view of my main character; you can't get that by sitting at a desk. Votes: 0

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you. Votes: 0

I'm lucky enough to split my time between the field and the office. Some land surveyors in larger outfits can work mostly from behind a desk, managing many field crews at once. Votes: 0

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic. Votes: 0

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives. Votes: 0

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level. Votes: 0

Sometimes there's nothing but Sundays for weeks on end. Why can't they move Sunday to the middle of the week so you could put it in the OUT tray on your desk? Votes: 0

Knowledge is honestly everything. It's not just books and staying behind a desk and having a diploma. There's also traveling and knowledge about people, and what I do and scripts and books. Votes: 0

I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant. Votes: 0

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible. Votes: 0

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things. Votes: 0

Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene. Votes: 0

We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can. Votes: 0

Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene. Votes: 0

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk." Votes: 0

Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk. Votes: 0

Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs. Votes: 0

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never going to sit behind a desk or do something involving numbers. Votes: 0

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best Votes: 0

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. Votes: 0

She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?" "Of course." he said though he had no idea what hairspray was. Votes: 0

It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed. Votes: 0

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer. Votes: 0

We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that there is an available desk in an office someplace. Votes: 0

When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat. Votes: 0

If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in. Votes: 0

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track. Votes: 0

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it. Votes: 0

I always laugh at these companies that have these rules saying, 'You're only allowed to have this or that on your desk.' It's no fun to work at a place like that. Votes: 0

Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either. Votes: 0

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh. Votes: 0

Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere. Votes: 0

If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass. Votes: 0

When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle. Votes: 0

A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue. Votes: 0

I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed. Votes: 0

I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake. Votes: 0

When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor. Votes: 0

I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos. Votes: 0

I can remember playing under the big wooden desk in his office. My mother didn't like us to chew gum, so we'd go into his office, and he'd feed us gum under the desk. Votes: 0

I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen. Votes: 0

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric. Votes: 0

If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life. Votes: 0

I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself. Votes: 0

Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore." Votes: 0

Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore. Votes: 0

Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me. Votes: 0

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't. Votes: 0

I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living. Votes: 0

I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband. Votes: 0

I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I'm writing. I don't see anything else, I don't think about anything else. Votes: 0

It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is. Votes: 0

I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV. Votes: 0

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed. Votes: 0

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone. Votes: 0

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole. Votes: 0

If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy. Votes: 0