Top 942 Desk Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
In the early 1980s, Linley was a cooperative. There were four of us who designed and made cabinets and desk accessories.
Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'
If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.
My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.
In the studio, I don't use an amp, I just go direct into the desk. It's virtually acoustic, what I'm doing.
For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.
I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don’t have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.
I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.
For me, it's almost a 24/7 process. It's not like I only think when I'm in the office sitting at my desk.
The transition of a desk job, having to be in the office at the same time every day, I found super hard.
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.
One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.
I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.
When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.
Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.
After 9/11, I didn't look to go sit on the Swiss desk - I stepped up. I was not on the sidelines.
Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice
I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.
I hope people know that when I'm sitting there, it's not some guy on a desk on a platform with sort of this voice-of-God approach.
The best part about traveling for work is that it's better than sitting behind a desk!
My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.
It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.
If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I’d find different.
I had visited Congressman Deal before, but I never thought I'd be sitting on the other side of the desk.
I just had this moment where I was sitting at my desk, and I realized what it was that I'd been wanting to do since I was a little girl - and that was act.
I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.
My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
I'm always involved with training and the martial arts. It's not like I go to a desk job somewhere and then throw on the gloves.
Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.
I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances.
I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.
I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.
The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.
I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.
I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.
I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.
When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.
