Desk Quotes
484 Desk quotes by 403 unique authors
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Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.
— Roddy Doyle
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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
— Jeannette Walls
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I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.
— Vijay Mallya
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He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.
— John Hiatt
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The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk.
— Alice Cooper
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We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.
— Alice Cooper
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I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.
— Dylan Lauren
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I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.
— Chuck Pagano
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I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations…
— Hayden Panettiere
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It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because…
— Guy Ritchie
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I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films…
— Mercedes Ruehl
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Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
— Bob Woodward
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Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you…
— Will Self
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
— Harold Geneen
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must…
— Harold Geneen
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I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the…
— Kenneth Lonergan
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I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.
— David Morrissey
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At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima,…
— John Hersey
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I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.
— James Herbert
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When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all…
— Paul Dirac
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The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the…
— Henry Watson Fowler
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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
— Janet Fitch
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I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at…
— Graham Swift
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I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion.…
— Joy Behar
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There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these…
— Laz Alonso
Who Wrote These Desk Quotes
403 authors contributed a total of 484 Desk Quotes, led by these top contributors: