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
I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
“Creativty is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no… — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk? That way, when… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just… — Gerry Harvey Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise… — David Foster Wallace 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
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella.… — Rainbow Rowell 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
It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're… — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When she saw my messy desk, she said she was the same way, and there was no dust on the TV, and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And sometimes, I'd be allowed to be hanging out in the studio, which I just loved kind of, like, being in the… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen.” “Oh! My desk. I could’ve sat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to… — Colleen Dewhurst Copy Share Image
Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every… — Josh Ritter Copy Share Image