Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Hurley

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

Bruce Springsteen

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.

Brad Meltzer

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

Jamie Zawinski

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

Jann Wenner

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

Bob Woodward

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

David Morrissey

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

Brian Wansink

Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.

Brandon T. Jackson

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

Angela Lansbury

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.

Andy Kindler

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.

Annie Dillard

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.

Don Hewitt

I plan to die at my desk.

Dylan Lauren

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Chuck Pagano

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

Kurt Vonnegut

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Susan Orlean

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

Rainbow Rowell

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.

Simon Beaufoy

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

Thomas Pynchon

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

Vijay Mallya

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

Roald Dahl

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.

Venus Williams

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

Susan Hill

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.

Raymond Chandler

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.

Roddy Doyle

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

Eric Burdon

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.

Hayden Panettiere

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

Jenny Offill

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.

Buzz Aldrin

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

James Herbert

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

Karen Walker

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