Desks Quotes

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 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.

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

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

I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

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

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.

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.

I plan to die at my desk.

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

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

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

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

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

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

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

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

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

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a character who will be the spokesperson of the Israeli Left, another one will be the spokesperson of the Right, another one will be the spokesperson of Middle Eastern Jews, European Jews, religions Jews and so on.

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

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

Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.

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

Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.

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.

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