Quotes of: Desks Keyword

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

David Morrissey

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

George Lopez

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

Hilary Mantel

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

Roddy Doyle

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

Christopher Parker

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

Fred Allen

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

John le Carre

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

Emma Donoghue

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

John Grisham

Desk sergeant: [referring to Serpico's moustache] You look like an asshole with dentures.

Serpico

I always laugh at these companies that have these rules saying, 'You're only allowed to have this or that on your desk.' It's no fun to work at a place like that.

John Lasseter

A soft knock at the door interrupted him in the middle of spreading the articles out on his desk. He looked up to see Tillaume in the doorway holding a tray of tea and a basket, the handle over his arm. “Tea, my lord?” “That would be wonderful....

The Alloy of Law

Sam hauled open the library door. "There you are!" Whit pushed up from the desk he'd been hunched over. "We thought you two had given up on us." "Unlike some people I know," I said, removing my mittens and scarf, "we don't live here." "She says that ...

Incarnate

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interacti...

An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it—orange-blossoms, in an English winter!

Affinity

If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.

Marcus Samuelsson

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

Lee Child

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

Spencer Kayden

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

Tom Stoppard

‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Kurt Vonnegut