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Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from your
desk 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 like walking into a smaller hotel where the desk clerk recognizes me. — John Pritzker

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

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin. — John Updike

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 day guy was an aquiline black man about seven feet tall, but slender as a pencil, folded into a desk chair that was far too small for him. — Lee Child

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

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. — Franz Kafka

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

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. — Walt Disney

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

He may have gotten spanked by a barbecue grill, but on a desk unit, he was a king. — J.D. Robb

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

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk. — Lou Gerstner

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

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. — Fred Allen

Whacked away under the desk like hail on a barn roof. — Dennis Vickers

Spending the next nine hours with a crying woman wal real close to the top of his "Avoid at All Costs" list right under untimely death and a desk job. — Tara Janzen

You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk. — A.D. Posey

In the beginning the point was not to have a point, to escape the world in which everyone had to have a job, a desk, an office. — Orhan Pamuk

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

Dude," I said, leaning over the desk, "I'm about as psychic as a carrot. — Darynda Jones

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. — Ted Bell

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

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket
to hold all of mu mistakes. — Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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. — Chelsea Cain

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 strategy
that eluded him at the moment. — Terry Pratchett

No matter how busy you are make time to eat at a table. A desk is not a table. — Pat Falvey

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

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

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

Whether you reed or rite, accustom yourselves to stand at a high desk — Noah Webster

The half of her that is underwater would like to be
under 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

My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk. — Reem Acra

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

a girl in a lemon-coloured shirt sat at a desk, with word processor, potted plant, mug of pencils, furry gonk, and wadges of orange paper. — Hugh Laurie

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

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision. — Bill Gates

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

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

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

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. — Anne Lamott

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

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything. — Michio Kaku

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice — Lewis Carroll