Best My Desk Sayings
141 My Desk quotes by 125 unique authors
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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
— Jeannette Walls
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I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.
— Vijay Mallya
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I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.
— Chuck Pagano
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I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the…
— Kenneth Lonergan
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I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.
— James Herbert
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I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion.…
— Joy Behar
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There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these…
— Laz Alonso
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When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make…
— Paula Fox
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Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.
— Brad Meltzer
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I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I…
— Markus Zusak
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I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my…
— Ted Bell
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I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost…
— Jennifer Gilmore
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When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey…
— Walt Disney
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For years I kept a sign on my desk that helped me maintain the right perspective concerning yesterday. It simply said, 'yesterday ended last night.'…
— John C. Maxwell
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Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in…
— Brit Marling
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If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!
— Ronald Reagan
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I had a very full life, with pains and losses, of course. I lost all the people I was closest to: my partner, my father,…
— Giovanna Cau
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Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
— John Grisham
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It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work…
— Junot Diaz
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The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an…
— Margaret Haddix
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Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love,…
— Tom Hanks
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The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
— Helen Hunt
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People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in…
— Stephen King
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a…
— Stephen King
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