Desks Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I plan to die at my desk.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.

I do know how to operate a computer. (Joe) Yeah, right. What was it you said just ten minutes ago? Get this damned thing off my desk before I shoot it? Now make the call, Mr. Hunt-and-Peck. (Tee)

I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen.” “Oh! My desk. I could’ve sat at my desk. I could’ve sat at your desk.” “No.” “It’s a vid set.” “Even then, no.

I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

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

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

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.

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

Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

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

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

I'm enjoying where I'm at in my life and I feel like I'm learning a lot on a daily basis. I'm learning without having to be behind a desk, so it's a pretty cool place to be.

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

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