1.
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!
Ronald Reagan
2.
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
William Faulkner
3.
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
4.
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
5.
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.
M. F. K. Fisher
6.
Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
Emma Thompson
7.
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.
Susan Hill
8.
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.
Roald Dahl
9.
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
10.
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
Harold Geneen
11.
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.
Annie Dillard
12.
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
Thomas Pynchon
13.
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.
Elizabeth Hurley
14.
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.
Zac Efron
15.
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.
Maira Kalman
16.
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.
Bruce Springsteen
17.
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
18.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
Simon Beaufoy
19.
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Kurt Vonnegut
20.
Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
Bob Woodward
21.
I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.
Vijay Mallya
22.
A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.
Albert Einstein
25.
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
26.
The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.
Buzz Aldrin
27.
The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.
Bill Kovach
28.
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
29.
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.
Markus Zusak
30.
I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.
Chuck Pagano
31.
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.
Charlie Brooker
32.
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
Robert Orben
33.
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.
Rainbow Rowell
34.
I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
Jeannette Walls
35.
A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn’t have asked this of me.' 'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn’t have hesitated to drink.' I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.
Charlaine Harris
36.
I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work
Nora Roberts
37.
I stood and walked around the desk so I could stand over him. Menacingly. Like Darth Vader, only with better lung capacity.
Darynda Jones
39.
Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.
Louise Rennison
40.
Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.
John McCain
41.
I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.
Warren Buffett
42.
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.
Susan Orlean
43.
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.
Norman Mailer
44.
I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.
David Morrissey
45.
I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.
James Herbert
48.
I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.
Jon Foreman
49.
Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.
Christiane Amanpour
50.
As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
Nadeem Aslam