Desk Quote by John le Carré Download Open image ““A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”” — John le Carré ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desk Viewpoint
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” —JOHN LE CARRÉ” — Chris Guillebeau 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“A workplace desk is like a woman's handbag; it's private and a necessity.” — Christine M Knight Copy Share Image
“Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something they thought they had irretrievably lost.” — Helen Exley Copy Share Image
“I’d much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“That's how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here,… — Martine Bailey Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“and the wood smoke will roll out of the fireplace on to the carpet we paid too much for on that rainy afternoon in… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Middle children weep longer than their brothers and sisters. Over her mother’s shoulder, stilling her pains and her injured pride, Jackie Lacon watched the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they… — Bobby Bonilla Copy Share Image
When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money. — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
A handwritten Declaration of Independence was on my bedroom wall and the Founding Fathers were above my desk in college. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that's covered this place” — Andrew Boddie Copy Share Image
If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk. — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that… — Lisa Gansky Copy Share Image
I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search. — Lars Rasmussen Copy Share Image
