His Desk Quotes

41 quotes by 39 authors

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled… — Phil Jackson
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
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person. — Georges Simenon
Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit… — Madeleine Stowe
Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the… — Antoine Lavoisier
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5… — Fred Allen
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
The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk. — Alice Cooper
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
Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk,… — Warren Buffett
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out… — Ben Ames Williams
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms… — Ouida
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all… — Roald Dahl
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist,… — Tom Wolfe
In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is sitting at his… — Jhumpa Lahiri
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this… — John Kennedy Toole
An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student… — Rebecca Solnit
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.… — Stephen King
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
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

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