I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films. — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
I have a beautiful desk. I rarely sit behind it. That's not where my job is. My job is in the community. — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
I just had this moment where I was sitting at my desk, and I realized what it was that I'd been wanting… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write. — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
The Standard in Hollywood, when you check in, they have that sort of Area-like vignette behind the front desk with someone sleeping… — Eric Goode Copy Share Image
I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're… — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I was not giving you a heated look.” “What do you call it then?” “I was merely appreciating your, ah…finer points.” “Yes,… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time,… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
One ritual is that I don't speak to anyone before I write in the morning. I like to get to my desk… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was… — Amanda Burton Copy Share Image
When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I stared across the desk at the psychiatrist and tried not to fiddle. Betsy” — Marianne Delacourt Copy Share Image
