Lap Desk Quotes

#1. When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#2. Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

Donald Rumsfeld

#3. I think the honesty not only shines through in my work, but also my personal life. And I get in trouble for being honest. I'm extremely old-fashioned. I'm a nobleman. I'm chivalrous.

Charlie Sheen

#4. To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Northrop Frye

#5. I finished grating a root and dropped the stub into a jar on the desk. Bloodroot is aptly named; the scientific name is Sanguinaria, and the juice is red, acrid, and sticky. The bowl in my lap was full of oozy, moist shavings, and my hands looked as though I had been disemboweling small animals.

Diana Gabaldon

#6. Lifting my hands from the keyboard, I fold them in my lap and tilt back my desk chair. I think, I could do it. I could turn back time.

Devorah Fox

#7. I do not know if these hands will become Malcolm's - raised and fisted or Martin's - open and asking or James's - curled around a pen. I do not know if these hands will be Rosa's or Ruby's gently gloved and fiercely folded calmly in a lap, on a desk, around a book, ready to change the world . . .

Jacqueline Woodson

#8. Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

Henri Poincare

#9. Power of persistence can overcome any obstacles.

Debasish Mridha

#10. The search for Jesus is about reconciling loss and tragedy to God and us.

W. Scott Lineberry

#11. 21Most food goes to waste in affluent societies. When we throw leftovers into the garbage, it goes to waste. When we eat more food than we need, it goes to waist.

Earle Gray

#12. These are just some arms in the service of a head. Is not this the true organization of the force?

Jules Verne