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.
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
Harold Geneen
10.
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
11.
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
Thomas Pynchon
12.
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
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.
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
16.
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
17.
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
18.
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Kurt Vonnegut
19.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
Simon Beaufoy
20.
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
21.
The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.
Buzz Aldrin
22.
Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
Bob Woodward
23.
I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.
Vijay Mallya
24.
A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.
Albert Einstein
27.
I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.
Chuck Pagano
28.
The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.
Bill Kovach
29.
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
30.
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
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.
I can walk around fine, but I don't have a desk job.
Venus Williams
34.
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.
Angela Lansbury
35.
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.
Nora Roberts
36.
Dude,” I said, leaning over the desk, “I’m about as psychic as a carrot.
Darynda Jones
37.
I don't have a Bloomberg on my desk. I don't care.
Seth Klarman
38.
I'm even though I'm not per se sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.
Hayden Panettiere
39.
Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.
Lorine Niedecker
40.
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
41.
I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
Jeannette Walls
42.
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
43.
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
45.
Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.
Louise Rennison
46.
I stood and walked around the desk so I could stand over him. Menacingly. Like Darth Vader, only with better lung capacity.
Darynda Jones
47.
Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.
John McCain
48.
I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.
Warren Buffett
49.
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.
Susan Orlean
50.
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