There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk. — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk? — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk. — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
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… — George Singleton Copy Share Image
I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles… — D. L. Hughley Copy Share Image
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a… — Joy Behar 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
God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich,… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
We want this - and I - we hope that right when they come back, that the Congress passes the Lilly Ledbetter… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van,… — Alexander McCall Smith 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
An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
No matter how busy you are make time to eat at a table. A desk is not a table. — Pat Falvey Copy Share Image
I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel. — Vijay Mallya Copy Share Image
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cannot ensure equal access or build upon our diverse strengths by sitting at our desks. — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
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