Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real… — Catherine Crier Copy Share Image
Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection. — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
The Chinese say that you should never, ever buy a used desk unless you know the history of it. They claim that… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Here are the bills again, I always dread them a little. They are familiar presences: first in the mail box, then in… — Gunilla Brodde Norris Copy Share Image
In the early days I'd be slaving over a mixing desk. I'm not a recording engineer but I used to mix the… — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
The person who sits at his or her desk the longest is not necessarily the best. In fact, he or she might… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
I think just getting up and getting to the desk is a big thing. If you can do that, you're in the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Well, you won't unless you come to lunch with me," Cal said. "I'm holding it for ransom. There's a gun to its… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED… — Jeff Fisher Copy Share Image
I met journalists that were on both sides of things. People who are young, enthusiastic and hard working journalists working on the… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
We need a president who will lead with a stronger, more consistent foreign policy. We also need our commander in chief to… — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this,… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
For years I kept a sign on my desk that helped me maintain the right perspective concerning yesterday. It simply said, 'yesterday… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us… — Sxip Shirey Copy Share Image
