Quotes of: Desks Keyword

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

Michio Kaku

We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that there is an available desk in an office someplace.

Lisa Gansky

I've always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can't expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient.

Audrey Meadows

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

Dani Shapiro

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

Bob Woodward

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

Helen Hunt

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Tom Conti

Police Captain: [answering phone that interrupted his conversation] This is not even my desk! [hangs up]

Se7en

David Mills: He's fuckin' with us! [Mills bends over a desk] David Mills: See this? This is us.

Se7en

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

Norman MacCaig

I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.

Jennifer Gilmore

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

Jeannette Walls

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Calvin Coolidge

I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.

Danny McBride

Sanderson: So where did they find you? Grimes: Behind a desk. [Sanderson laughs] Grimes: No really.

Black Hawk Down

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Annie Dillard

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

Tess Gerritsen

Have you thrown ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?’ at her yet?

Alice in Wonderland

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

Hilary Mantel

For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'

Anton Corbijn

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

Jack Kilby