Top 942 Desk Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

The biggest boss has the clearest desk.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair. James, what’s wrong?' the friend asked. 'Is it the work?' Joyce indicated assent without even raising his head to look at his friend. Of course it was the work; isn’t it always? How many words did you get today?' the friend pursued. Joyce (still in despair, still sprawled facedown on his desk): 'Seven.' Seven? But James… that’s good, at least for you.' Yes,' Joyce said, finally looking up. 'I suppose it is… but I don’t know what order they go in!

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Dude,” I said, leaning over the desk, “I’m about as psychic as a carrot.

You can't run a multinational business from your desk.

My pets are very supportive, as they curl up in their beds underneath my desk.

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.

As a writer, I'm mostly at my desk, staring out my window. No one sees me.

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

To be honest, I didn't even know what the Drama Desk Awards were until I was nominated.

I can walk around fine, but I don't have a desk job.

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

You will never be on this anchor desk, because you're Chinese.

I'm even though I'm not per se sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

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

I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

The way in which you carry yourself, even when seated at a desk, matters.

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

I love all Goop products, but I'll always have the Revitalizing Day Moisturizer on my desk at work or in my handbag.

The priority is to put bills on the president's desk that will move the country forward.

I really just like to be at a desk.

Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

I didn't want a desk job; I knew I'd get bored.

The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

I want to die at my desk.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.

Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.