Desks Quotes · Page 4

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

— Emma Thompson

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

— Bob Woodward

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 enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

— Christopher Parker

Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.

— Bruce Mau

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

— Kristin Cashore

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

— Lorine Niedecker

“but the reality of millions of years of adaptation to a ruggedly physical existence will not just go away because desks were…

— Mark Rippetoe

It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was…

— E. B. White

On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush…

— Maira Kalman

I like to customize things. I customized the back of old Lincoln to be my mobile office. I had one of those…

— Matthew McConaughey

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi…

— T. S. Eliot

I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole…

— Anne Sexton

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to…

— Erica Jong

I had a very full life, with pains and losses, of course. I lost all the people I was closest to: my…

— Giovanna Cau

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It…

— Alvin Lee

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a…

— Orson Welles

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

“He blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost…

— Marissa Meyer

J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your…

— B. C. Forbes

What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our…

— Trip Lee

Of all the forms of exercise that I have done, Power Plate® training is the most concise. If I start my session…

— Maureen Lipman

Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell…

— Carolyn Keene

I'm really glad that I'm not Anna because I don't want to be there again. I've been there. But when something does…

— Stevie Nicks

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

— Etty Hillesum

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

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from…

— Franz Kafka

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

— Grantland Rice

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has…

— Harry S. Truman

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually…

— Anthony Horowitz

Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk…

— Stephen King

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

— Janet Fitch

I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.

— Michelle Rodriguez

Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back!

— Jon Stewart

Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.

— Helen Exley

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

— Chad Harbach

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

— Alice Cooper

You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.

— Linda Fairstein

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy.…

— Stephen King

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe…

— Joanna Lumley