Desk Quotes

484 quotes by 403 authors

I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I… — George Washington Carver
When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And… — Rich Hall
Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your… — Samuel Warren Carey
All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity… — Fulton J. Sheen
When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you… — Bruce Barton
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can! Every great achievement in this world was first carefully thought out.… — George Matthew Adams
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge… — Ben Jonson
...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a… — Anne Lamott
Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk. — William Matthews
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.… — Anne Lamott
I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk. — Hortense Calisher
I can remember playing under the big wooden desk in his office. My mother didn't like us to chew gum, so we'd go into his… — John F. Kennedy Jr.
When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored… — Daniel Quinn
In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by… — Donald E. Westlake
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
Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception… — Pete Townshend
I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their… — Donald Trump
You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible… — Dave Barry
I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there,… — Philip Pullman
I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're… — Paul Simon

Who Wrote These Desk Quotes

403 authors contributed a total of 484 Desk Quotes, led by these top contributors: