Desks Quotes

442 Desks quotes by 368 unique authors

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic… — Peter Straub
Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk? That way, when you want to… — Jack Handey
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person. — Georges Simenon
Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can… — Stephen Fry
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories. — Linda Fairstein
Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up. — Gary Lutz
You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust that… — Ann Romney
I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And… — Jean Sibelius
To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost… — Ingvar Kamprad
I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators donâ€™t have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in… — Ingvar Kamprad
Of all the forms of exercise that I have done, Power PlateÂ® training is the most concise. If I start my session at 9.30am, I… — Maureen Lipman
Jeff Klein, one of the earliest champions of Conscious Capitalism, offers a highly practical yet profoundly intuitive blueprint for achieving your purpose-and making a difference… — Patricia Aburdene
Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide. — Roddy Doyle
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. — Kurt Vonnegut
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk,… — Stewart O'Nan
I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what Iâ€™m writing. I… — Haruki Murakami
When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made. — Harry S. Truman
The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes… — Barry S. Strauss

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