Desk Quotes

484 Desk quotes by 403 unique authors

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar… — Kurt Vonnegut
My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it… — Malcolm Gladwell
You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your… — Judith McNaught
Why is a raven like a writing desk? — Lewis Carroll
At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind… — David Wong
A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn’t have asked this of me.' 'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn’t have hesitated to drink.' I crossed… — Charlaine Harris
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm… — Bill Watterson
I do know how to operate a computer. (Joe) Yeah, right. What was it you said just ten minutes ago? Get this damned thing off… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Chinese say that you should never, ever buy a used desk unless you know the history of it. They claim that if it belonged… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
All I want to know is why a party of Fey wanted to kill me,” I said heatedly. The beetle’s lips twisted enough to show… — Karen Chance
Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a… — Carolyn Keene
I want blood! Two of Aksel’s dogs cornered me near Tondara. They shot me. Those bastards actually shot a hole in my stabilizer the size… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and… — Fannie Flagg
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased… — Stephen Jay Gould
Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind… — John Marsden
I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against… — Maggie Stiefvater
If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing,… — Brian P. Cleary
I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I… — Douglas Coupland
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in… — Stephen King
If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I’d find different. — Nalini Singh
I was waiting for my body receipt when Morelli walked in. He nodded to Ranger and grinned at me in my whiteness. “I was at… — Janet Evanovich
I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my… — Ayn Rand
The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation… — Walt Whitman
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk? — James Lee Burke
There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it… — Steven Brust

Who Wrote These Desk Quotes

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