Desks Quotes

442 Desks quotes by 368 unique authors

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
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
The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be… — Alain de Botton
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
And it really doesn't matter if we're under our desks with our hands over our heads or not, does it? No, said Mrs. Baker. It… — Gary D. Schmidt
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

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