Quote by David McCullough Download Open image ““He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,”” — David McCullough ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In the office, he was miles above me. In the bedroom, he was on his knees below me. And afterward, when the work day… — L.A. Witt Copy Share Image
“thirty-year legal career. His robes were tossed on the couch behind them. His desk served as a workstation” — Rebecca Forster Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I have a beautiful desk. I rarely sit behind it. That's not where my job is. My job is in the community. — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
“He was, in any case, more intelligent than the moronic heap of compost sitting across the desk from me” — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I have a desk that I can raise or lower according to the state of my aching back. Sometimes I stand at it, and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” —JOHN LE CARRÉ” — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
“I’ve often thought the biggest element of successful writing is the ability to get the seat of your pants to the seat of a… — Agnes Nixon Copy Share Image
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal… — David McCullough Copy Share Image