Top 1200 Front Desk Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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 had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Even in a given territory what would work in one city in front of one crowd might not work in front of another crowd. Every crowd is different in what they are looking for and what they'll respond to.

I'll play anywhere for Arsenal, but hopefully, given my chance up front, I can do something, because I've always been more of a striker than a winger, and I think I could show a bit more up front.

'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

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.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

It's hard to put yourself in front of a camera, in front of the world, when you don't feel like you look the part. I've always had that problem. But I deal with it every day. When I'm interviewing, I'm like, "How do I look? Do I look all right?"

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

Especially as a woman, the jury sums you up immediately and is listening to everything you're saying. You have to be on your game all the time, and that prepares you for being in front of the camera. The difference is, when I am in front of a jury, I am not talking about my emotions and my life.

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.

Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.

When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

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.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

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.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction.

Using KERS and the adjustable front wing is not particularly difficult. Once you've worked out where to use KERS to optimum effect at each track, and in which places you adjust the front wing, it happens pretty much automatically.

In the early 1980s, Linley was a cooperative. There were four of us who designed and made cabinets and desk accessories.

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.

'Scandal' has been, for me, the most consistent time I've ever logged in front of a camera. I grew up in the theater, and I feel very confident and comfortable on the stage and in front of a live audience, but the camera is a very different medium.

But basketball was always something I was good at, that I was passionate about. I just didn't have the confidence to play in front of people at the time, at that early age. Now, I feel like I'm ready to play in front of people and play on the big stage.

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.

The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

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 house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

It's easy to be critical of ourselves and other women around us. We stand in front of the mirror and only focus on the things we hate about our body and our appearance. But I encourage you to change that attitude the next time you are in front of the mirror.

Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back!

For someone like me, who as a kid could not have two people in front of me without wanting to hide, to end up on stage with a lot of people in front of me, feeling good, it has to be a strange and special place.

Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. Ive never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

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 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.

I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

I had visited Congressman Deal before, but I never thought I'd be sitting on the other side of the desk.

In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.

The transition of a desk job, having to be in the office at the same time every day, I found super hard.

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.

I am often asked what it is like to be on the 'front line.' But I do not use the term 'front line' to describe us, the protesters. Because everywhere in America, wherever we are, our blackness puts us in close proximity to police violence.

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I’d find different.

And as a director, you constantly try to solve problems, so you have to focus on that. You take away all the other parts. Of course, when the shot finishes, you remember that you have Robert De Niro in front of you. But when you're shooting, you just see a character in front of you, and an actor, and you try to search for very truthful moments. That's what obsesses you.

I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.

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.