Desk Quotes

484 Desk quotes by 403 unique authors

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true. — Christiane Amanpour
Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at… — Harry Gordon Selfridge
Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight. — Bruce Mau
Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and… — Catherine Crier
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous. — Elizabeth Hurley
Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk. — Christopher Smart
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it… — Brian Kernighan
But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk,… — Zhuangzi
If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with… — Norman MacCaig
Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children… — Dinah Sheridan
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic… — Peter Straub
Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk? That way, when you want to… — Jack Handey
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person. — Georges Simenon
Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can… — Stephen Fry
You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories. — Linda Fairstein
You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust that… — Ann Romney
To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost… — Ingvar Kamprad
I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators donâ€™t have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in… — Ingvar Kamprad

Who Wrote These Desk Quotes

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