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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

I like walking into a smaller hotel where the desk clerk recognizes me. — John Pritzker

He was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk. — Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

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

to Reacher's desk. It said Gunshot victim previously reported was LTC Caroline C. Crawford. DOA inside POV — Lee Child

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

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

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

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses. — W.B.Yeats

I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk. — Victoria Aveyard

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up — William Faulkner

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

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

Sorry, this is the circulation desk. To reserve an item you have to go to the reference desk right over there. — Myself

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

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down ... To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? ... Sabbathless Satan! — Charles Lamb

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

And Andy, gloomy and self-devouring, sat at his desk and chewed the cud of memory. — May Sarton

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

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

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. — Anais Nin

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

At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that's covered this place — Andrew Boddie

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

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

Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK? — Jude Watson

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

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

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

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

I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances. — Shane McCrae

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

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

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

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 be
under 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

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk. — Alice Cooper

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

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. — Helen Hunt

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

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on. — Len Wein

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

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

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

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

He leaned across the desk and produced a short-barrel revolver from one of the drawers. "One problem. Six solutions. — Matt Hults