Common denominator Quote by Kenneth C. Johnson

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

— Christine M Knight

“The pride in strength and important mystery showed no less in the eyes of the sweepers than in those of the machinists and inspectors,…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Generally office and home were far apart, and home was much more important than office. I was not ashamed of valuing my private life…

— Diana Athill

“My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“The ... office was decorated in early American Earth Mother, with spider plants, hemp wall tapestries, and beeswax candles.”

— Karen Neches

“Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something they thought they had irretrievably lost.”

— Helen Exley

“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was a house…

— Anne Rice

“I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American,…

— John Robert Lewis

“now he was requesting as much microfilm as the librarians would let him have at one time, and was buzzing it all through the…

— Donald E. Westlake

“Why should I want to have a lot of copies of this and that lying around? Nothing but clutter in the office, a temptation…

— John Brooks