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.
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
8.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
28.
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
29.
I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.
Chuck Pagano
30.
The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.
Bill Kovach
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 stood and walked around the desk so I could stand over him. Menacingly. Like Darth Vader, only with better lung capacity.
Darynda Jones
35.
Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.
Louise Rennison
36.
Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.
John McCain
37.
I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.
Warren Buffett
38.
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.
Susan Orlean
39.
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
40.
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
41.
I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.
James Herbert
44.
I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.
Jon Foreman
45.
Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.
Christiane Amanpour
46.
As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
Nadeem Aslam
47.
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.
Amos Oz
48.
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.
Brian Wansink
49.
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
Sarah Rees Brennan
50.
You will never be on this anchor desk, because you're Chinese.
Julie Chen