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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen.” “Oh! My desk. I could’ve sat at my desk. I could’ve sat at your desk.” “No.” “It’s a vid set.” “Even then, no.

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'm even though I'm not per se sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

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

Dude,” I said, leaning over the desk, “I’m about as psychic as a carrot.

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