Desks famous quotes

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

#House #Hollywood #Desks

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

#Gears #Belief #Desks

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

#Cities #Desks #Stills

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

#Writing #Sitting #Desks

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

#Glasses #Desks #Queues

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

#Kids #Desks

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

#Paper #Sun #Desks

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

#Desks

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

#Psychics #Carrots #Desks

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

#Office #Library #Desks

I plan to die at my desk.
-- Don Hewitt

#Office #Desks #Plans

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

#Men #May #Desks

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

#Sitting #Desks #Meetings

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

#Mixtures #Desks #Terrible

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

#Writing #Matter #Desks

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.
-- Eric Burdon

#Dream #Factories #Desks

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

#Desks

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

#Writing #Flames #Desks

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

#Jobs #Office #Desks

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

#Office #Rooms #Desks

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

#Morning #Desks #Terrible

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

#Office #Drink #Desks

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

#Mind #Freak #Desks

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

#Anchors #Chinese #Desks

I've got drinks piling up on my desk and a stack of pills I haven't even opened yet!
-- Karen Walker

#Pills #Drink #Desks

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

#America #Library #Desks

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

#Poetry #Grandfather #Desks

Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.
-- Louise Rennison

#Beard #Desks #Rosie

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.
-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Writing #Cooking #Desks

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

#Desks #Limes #Brushes

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

#Desks #Coming Back #Ability

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

#Desks #Homeland

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

#Sleep #Sitting #Desks

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

#Doors #Enough #Desks

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

#Lucky #Desks #Doom

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

#Night #Paper #Desks

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.
-- Terry Pratchett

#Moments #Strategy #Desks

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

#Jobs #Desks #Fine

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

#Desks #Unfinished

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

#Desks #Bus #Train Stations

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.
-- William Matthews

#Desks #Thrive

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

#Desks #Enjoy #Bases

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.
-- Andy Kindler

#Guy #Conan #Desks

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.
-- Kelli Russell Agodon

#Solitude #Desks

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

#Desks #Found #Participation

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

#Editors #Arguing #Desks

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.
-- Brandon T. Jackson

#Jobs #Comedy #Desks