Desks Quotes

442 Desks quotes by 368 unique authors

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess… — Michael Moore
I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters… — Haruki Murakami
Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work,… — Khaled Hosseini
Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away. — Louise Rennison
How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my… — W G Sebald
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space… — Hilary Mantel
I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band… — Conan O'Brien
When she saw my messy desk, she said she was the same way, and there was no dust on the TV, and I was easy… — Miranda July
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

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