“Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.” — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I’d find… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings. — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know? — Jann Wenner Copy Share Image
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. — Thomas Pynchon 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
When you win an award from the Grammys, it means a lot 'cause it's voted on by 100% by the people. It's… — Paul Wall 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
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn’t have asked this of me.' 'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn’t have hesitated to… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking… — Steven Millhauser 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
I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag, of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I met the girl who works at the Doubletree front desk, she gave me her number. It's ZERO. I tried to call… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
You have to put the idea into action. If you don’t have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can remember playing under the big wooden desk in his office. My mother didn't like us to chew gum, so we'd… — John F. Kennedy Jr 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
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
On George W Bush: That man sits at that desk in the White House with the button that can end the world.… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's nothing but Sundays for weeks on end. Why can't they move Sunday to the middle of the week so you… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
