I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. — Anonymous 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
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel. — Vijay Mallya 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
I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. — H. G. Wells 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
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
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
My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'.… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
I've never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late. — Hilary Mantel 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 don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after… — Edna Ferber 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
In the early days I'd be slaving over a mixing desk. I'm not a recording engineer but I used to mix the… — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
I never got to play with Art [ Blakey], but he was kind and spoke to me a number of times. He… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Here are the bills again, I always dread them a little. They are familiar presences: first in the mail box, then in… — Gunilla Brodde Norris 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 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
In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John… — David Wong Copy Share Image
All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I'm trolling through the recesses of my mind for the things I did with my kids when they used to like to… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A typical workday for me is getting up at about 5:00, 5:15 in the morning, getting some coffee or tea as quickly… — Eric Schlosser 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
Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
We cannot ensure equal access or build upon our diverse strengths by sitting at our desks. — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
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
Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk. — John Grisham Copy Share Image