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Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from yourdesk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin. — Gina Greenlee
What was creepier, a man who loved clip-on ties or a girl who kept a log of fantasy fathers hidden in her desk drawer?
— Ruta Sepetys
Have you thrown 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' at her yet?
— Elle Lothlorien
I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.
— Brandon T. Jackson
Why is a raven like a writing-desk?
— Marissa Meyer
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.
— George Singleton
Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.
— Michael Dirda
The two of them were sat at the circular desk in the library, waiting for 1pm so they could go for lunch. Kayleigh
— E.A. Price
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.
— Raymond Chandler
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.
— Elizabeth Hurley
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.
— Graham Swift
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.
— Susan Orlean
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
— Sarah Addison Allen
The cat gives him a judgemental stare ,as if it's sitting on the decision-making side if the desk at a job interview.
— Fredrik Backman
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.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.
— Jamie Zawinski
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.
— Daniel Woodrell
I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
— Victoria Aveyard
I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
— Fernando Pessoa
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
— Robert Bloch
I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.
— Christopher Parker
For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'
— Anton Corbijn
As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
— Nadeem Aslam
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.
— Jerry Seinfeld
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind.
— C.E. Murphy
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
— Isabel Allende
He was like a huge smug albatross waddling around my desk, squawking vacuously and crapping all over my paperwork.
— Tana French
Whacked away under the desk like hail on a barn roof.
— Dennis Vickers
You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk.
— A.D. Posey
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.
— John E. Jones III
Mr. Pettifor, I've brought you lunch, Sir." "Leave it on my desk," he grouses. "It's your favorite, Sir, a Reuben with au jus," I say softly.
— Ella Dominguez
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
— Eric Idle
He felt confident that when he pulled open the drawer of that desk, he would find a Gideon Bible inside it ... .
— Arthur C. Clarke
I have this crazy collection of napkins and post-it notes I keep in a box under my desk, which I raid often and replenish constantly.
— Catherine Cruzan
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
— Natalie Du Toit
You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)
— William Sterrett
Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategythat eluded him at the moment. — Terry Pratchett
I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.
— Dylan Lauren
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.
— David Letterman
With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.
— Duane Swierczynski
Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns ... the writers are back!
— Jon Stewart
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
— Tom Peters
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
— Chelsea Cain
worn out desk chair squeaked in protest as he leaned back. "Have your folks ever taken you to see a physician for your
— Matthew Keith
One thing you learn as you get older: the secret to a happy work life is finding a desk chair you can live with.
— John Jackson Miller
Graffiti scratched on a desk of the Barker Street Grammar School in Chamberlain: Carrie White eats shit.
— Stephen King
The half of her that is underwater would like to beunder a desk, the head of her that is underwater
would like to be fully immersed. — Patricia Lockwood
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.
— Eric Burdon
A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.
— Raymond Chandler
One corner was filled by an elderly flat-top desk; the papers on it were neatly in order. Near it, on its own stand, was a small electric calculator.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A workplace desk is like a woman's handbag; it's private and a necessity.
— Christine M. Knight
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
— Robert Orben
I'm very interested in everything. The words fell with a hollow flatness on to Jay Cee's desk, like so many wooden nickels.
— Sylvia Plath
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!
— Stephen King
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.
— Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
I'm a neat freak ... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?
— Jann Wenner
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.
— Marcus Samuelsson
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
— John Le Carre
He leaned across the desk and produced a short-barrel revolver from one of the drawers. "One problem. Six solutions.
— Matt Hults
If ever you need it, I will level mountains to give you a desk. Even if an army is at our door, I'll hold them off until your ink runs dry.
— Meljean Brook
That is important," said Mma Makutsi from behind her desk. "One does not want a lady who talks too much.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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.
— Barbara Corcoran
Having a limp is okay, probably cool, if you are a desk jockey working from home, but poor publicity if you are a physical therapist.
— Adele Levine
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.
— Harry S. Truman
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
— Erica Jong
Look, Mom." He pointed to a desk in the corner of his room. "A real Pentium II. Not one of those slowpoke clones.
— James Rollins
To me, Microsoft is about empowerment ... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.
— Satya Nadella
There was a battered desk with its drawers open and askew, like a lady of the night with her heels kicked off and pantyhose around her ankles.
— Jen Frederick
He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,
— David McCullough
It's funny to me that power comes from sitting behind a desk. It should come from spending yourself.
— Kirsty Eagar
When I see a dictionary on my desk I feel like I'm looking at some strange dog leaving a twisty piece of poop on our lawn out back.
— Haruki Murakami
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.
— Mallory Ortberg
