You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk,… — Dave Barry 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
Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like.… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?"… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The way I see it, more people are wired with broadband from 9 to 5 during the day than watch TV at… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk,… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate… — Brian Wansink Copy Share Image
The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell… — Carolyn Keene Copy Share Image
If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
