I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it. — Chuck Pagano Copy Share Image
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I lose things. I write things and they disappear from my desk, my life. I move a lot. I wanted to gather… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I've got drinks piling up on my desk and a stack of pills I haven't even opened yet! — Karen Walker Copy Share Image
I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore… — John Hiatt Copy Share Image
Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk. — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
I was waiting for my body receipt when Morelli walked in. He nodded to Ranger and grinned at me in my whiteness.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
And then, 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' Those things just became so important to the character. You realize that… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
In the office, Michael sat behind our father’s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear.… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
