Desks Quotes · Page 10

All I want to know is why a party of Fey wanted to kill me,” I said heatedly. The beetle’s lips twisted…

— Karen Chance

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

— Tony Scott

The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk.

— Alice Cooper

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

— W. Averell Harriman

I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.

— Jon Foreman

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them,…

— Chris Christie

Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living…

— John Banville

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find…

— Gretchen Rubin

I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, "What should I do now?" It doesn't work like that for me,…

— Raf Simons

Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way…

— Dave Grohl

This is very rare for anyone in life to pursue something and that thing being the thing you actually most want to…

— Paul Auster

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

— Gloria Swanson

I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside…

— D.T. Suzuki

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning…

— Salman Rushdie

I never got to play with Art [ Blakey], but he was kind and spoke to me a number of times. He…

— Jon Gordon

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

— Lee Child

My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during…

— Sam Shepard

The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after…

— Katie Hopkins

Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like…

— John Marsden

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

— Anonymous

I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get…

— Chris Tucker

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things…

— Walt Whitman