Quote by Chris Guillebeau

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”

— John le Carré

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

— John le Carre

“Dear me, Mr. Day. You really do love to get fucked on desks, don't you? Put you on a desk, and you're begging for…

— K.J. Charles

What le Carré is so good at is unpicking something very specific about Englishness. That is almost part of why I think he wrote…

— Tom Hiddleston

“an idea hit him, he sat wherever he was—at his desk, kitchen table, a bar, or behind the wheel of his car—gnawing on his…

— Rebecca Skloot

I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious ideas of…

— David Farr

“Books can look dangerous or precious, depending on which side you're looking from, from office or from the streets.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“but the reality of millions of years of adaptation to a ruggedly physical existence will not just go away because desks were invented.”

— Mark Rippetoe

“A workplace desk is like a woman's handbag; it's private and a necessity.”

— Christine M Knight

“A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind.”

— C.E. Murphy

“cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind. ”

— Erin Brady

“I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk…

— John Steinbeck