Desks Quotes

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard. — Warren Buffett

but the reality of millions of years of adaptation to a ruggedly physical existence will not just go away because desks were invented. — Mark Rippetoe

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. — Rick Perry

Thank you to Giulia Fani, Joan Spence and my sister for the rooms and desks they loaned me. — Moez Surani

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

I meet them in this stadium, strangers at opposing desks until I wave my red flag. — Marina Leigh Duff

The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk. — Susan Orlean

I don't have a Bloomberg on my desk. I don't care. — Seth Klarman

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery. — Lorine Niedecker

The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more. — Bill Kovach

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

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer. — Lee Child

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life. — Fernando Pessoa

I am only sorry that we were not allowed to shake the judge's hand, and then dance on the desks. — Richard Llewelyn

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