Desk Quotes
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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
I sit at my desk, and I do not know where the words are hidden!
— Caitlin Moran
Why is a raven like a writing-desk?
— Marissa Meyer
Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.
— Michael Dirda
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
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.
— Susan Orlean
Edilio sighed and leaned forward, elbows on the desk. Quinn, listen, man. We need stuff back to normal.
— Michael Grant
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
Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs.
— John Kennedy Toole
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
to Reacher's desk. It said Gunshot victim previously reported was LTC Caroline C. Crawford. DOA inside POV
— Lee Child
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
No situation is beyond God's control. Over my wife's desk are these words: Fear not the future; God is already there.
— Billy Graham
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
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
— Hilary Mantel
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
Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something they thought they had irretrievably lost.
— Helen Exley
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
— Tom Peters
Welcome to Rainbow Falls Gardens," said the man behind the desk.
— Daisy Meadows
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.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
And for what portion of human history had people even had desk jobs?
— Rebecca Makkai
Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice
— Lewis Carroll
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
Graffiti scratched on a desk of the Barker Street Grammar School in Chamberlain: Carrie White eats shit.
— Stephen King
Charlie's stomach. He stomped back to his desk
— James Farner
The evening breeze floated through the open window over my desk, waltzing the curtain from side to side.
— Ruta Sepetys
He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,
— David McCullough
Dawson shoved away from his desk, stepped
— J.D. Robb
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
That is important," said Mma Makutsi from behind her desk. "One does not want a lady who talks too much.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.
— Bruce Mau
Standing behind the desk,checking out an appointment book,is Mr.Asshole himself,Vincent.
— Laura Wright
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
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 was terrible at desk jobs.
— David Chang
Standing directly in front of my desk, he peers down at me as I slowly raise my head, meeting his focused eyes. Suddenly, I can't feel my lips
— Kelly Stevenson
A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.
— Raymond Chandler
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
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
My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
— Geraldine Ferraro
He leaned against the writing desk and stayed there till nightfall, lost in sorrowful thoughts. After all, she had loved him.
— Gustave Flaubert
Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.
— Bruce Eric Kaplan
Reagan was sitting at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you awake?
— Rainbow Rowell
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
Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.
— Rachel Hawkins
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.
— Lady Bird Johnson
It's funny to me that power comes from sitting behind a desk. It should come from spending yourself.
— Kirsty Eagar
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
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
— Etty Hillesum
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.
— Robert Leckie
To be honest, I didn't even know what the Drama Desk Awards were until I was nominated.
— Spencer Kayden
Stormgren had walked to his desk and was fidgeting with his famous uranium paperweight. He was not nervous - merely undecided.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.
— Brad Meltzer
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
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 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
