Desk Quotes

484 Desk quotes by 403 unique authors

A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the… — Jennifer Crusie
It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs… — Terry Pratchett
Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries… — Alain de Botton
There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?" "Of course." he said… — Gena Showalter
It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to… — Ann Brashares
Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep… — Helene Hanff
Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment. — Terry Pratchett
We're out of time, Payton. You said it yourself: the only way we'll make it is for us to go into this together. I know… — Julie James
I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds… — Patti Smith
Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are… — Haruki Murakami
Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton… — Lori Wilde
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at… — Franz Kafka
In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker.… — David Levithan
I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture… — Henry David Thoreau
I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring at her, trying… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield’s outraged eyes. “We seem to be under a confusion… — Elizabeth Hoyt
Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty… — Holly Black
Well, you won't unless you come to lunch with me," Cal said. "I'm holding it for ransom. There's a gun to its heel right now."… — Jennifer Crusie
Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard… — Patrick Rothfuss
We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's… — Paul Arden
He couldn’t say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he’d learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she’d knocked off her… — Nalini Singh
My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down. — Wendy Mass
He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him on the towel, wrapped it… — Josh Lanyon
In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century… — Douglas Adams

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