Desks Quotes

Desks Quote of the day

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

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

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

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.

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.

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

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

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

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

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

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.

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

I'm enjoying where I'm at in my life and I feel like I'm learning a lot on a daily basis. I'm learning without having to be behind a desk, so it's a pretty cool place to be.

On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

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

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

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.

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

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

I plan to die at my desk.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.

Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.

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

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

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

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

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

Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you awake?" "No.

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

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

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

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She eyed Jared speculatively

If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I’d find different.

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

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

Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either.

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

Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk away from the desk he was so offended.