Desk Quotes

484 Desk quotes by 403 unique authors

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O! — Ronald Reagan
Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for… — Stevie Jackson
In the early days I'd be slaving over a mixing desk. I'm not a recording engineer but I used to mix the record. We used… — Stevie Jackson
I had a very full life, with pains and losses, of course. I lost all the people I was closest to: my partner, my father,… — Giovanna Cau
Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk. — John Grisham
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the… — Calvin Coolidge
As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that… — Darren Criss
There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking… — Sloane Crosley
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all… — Roald Dahl
It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work… — Junot Diaz
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and… — Annie Dillard
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk? — Rahm Emanuel
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass… — Malcolm Forbes
The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an… — Margaret Haddix
Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love,… — Tom Hanks
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. — Helen Hunt
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen… — Erica Jong
It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything. — Michio Kaku
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in… — Stephen King
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a… — Stephen King
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is… — Barbara Kingsolver
My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of… — Barbara Kingsolver
I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended… — Jeff Koons
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and… — John Lasseter

Who Wrote These Desk Quotes

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