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

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

Between the two
desks was one of those old Chinese screens, but even this bore Jenna's stamp, as the wood had been painted
you guessed it: pink. —
Rachel Hawkins

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

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

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

We grab a quick few minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our
desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. —
Cecelia Ahern

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to
desks and are called vice presidents. —
Fred Allen

I always suspected that programmers became programmers because they got to play God with the little universe boxes on their
desks. —
Jeff Atwood

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work. —
Nadeem Aslam

I always read everything on the
desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. —
W. Averell Harriman

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

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

All the
desks in this room are bolted down, Sutton. Just so you know." Uh, okay. —
Sara Shepard

From school
desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... technology progression yes... style? —
David H. Millar

There is no code among men because there are no men anymore. Only monsters who sit behind their
desks and give orders. —
Karina Halle

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little
desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books. —
Raymond Chandler

More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families,
desks for our schools, or medicine for our clinics. —
Oscar Arias

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

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind
desks —
C.S. Lewis

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. —
Jenny Offill

If Morrow worked with herself she'd try and sit a few
desks away. —
Denise Mina

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk. —
William Matthews

I hate
desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework. —
Emma Donoghue

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

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. —
Ingvar Kamprad

He might be mentally cut out for a desk job, but he doubted he'd fit behind most
desks. —
V.E Schwab

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true. —
Christiane Amanpour
Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up. —
Gary Lutz

Responsibility always stops at the president's desk. —
John McCain

Children don't do formal learning at
desks in preschool or kindergarten, they learn through playing. —
Lucy Crehan