Desks Quotes

442 Desks quotes by 368 unique authors

You have to put the idea into action. If you don’t have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top… — Donald Trump
You will never be on this anchor desk, because you're Chinese. — Julie Chen
David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk. — George Lopez
So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and… — George Lopez
As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work. — Nadeem Aslam
I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff.… — Gerry Harvey
My classroom is set up to accommodate the different types of assignments students do. Sitting at a single desk the entire class time just doesnt… — Christine Taylor
The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. — John McCain
Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden,… — Tayeb Salih
It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I… — Edward Abbey
Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the… — Mitt Romney
And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real… — Herman Melville
I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life. — Fernando Pessoa
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began… — Whitley Strieber
You know what comes next, of course. You know I'm writing this at my desk, on a Thursday, and day after tomorrow I'll put on… — James Autry
I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between… — David Foster Wallace
While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about… — John Wooden
Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at… — David Rubenstein
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty. — George Singleton
There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. — Tony Scott
If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top… — Rick Boucher
When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay… — Jacques Audiard
I can walk around fine, but I don't have a desk job. — Venus Williams
Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you… — Edward Snowden

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