Desk Quotes

484 Desk quotes by 403 unique authors

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had… — Bruce Springsteen
In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade.… — Matt Taibbi
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits… — Paul Theroux
Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy… — Jhonen Vasquez
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want… — Wendy Wasserstein
It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on. — Len Wein
As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his… — Orson Welles
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist,… — Tom Wolfe
Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys… — Howard Rheingold
I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen.… — Colm Toibin
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station…. — William Faulkner
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk. — Robert Bloch
In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is sitting at his… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on… — Khaled Hosseini
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this… — John Kennedy Toole
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at… — Isaac Babel
Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a… — Betty Smith
I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that… — Charles Bukowski
Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give… — Lewis Carroll
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on… — Alberto Manguel
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a… — Hunter S. Thompson
I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the… — Raymond Chandler
A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy… — A. J. Jacobs
Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me… — Alice Sebold
Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her… — Denis Johnson

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