Quotes About Desks

#1. It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.

Lemony Snicket

#2. I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.

Rachel Sklar

#3. but the reality of millions of years of adaptation to a ruggedly physical existence will not just go away because desks were invented.

Mark Rippetoe

#4. Thank you to Giulia Fani, Joan Spence and my sister for the rooms and desks they loaned me.

Moez Surani

#5. Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

John Knowles

#6. We grab a quick few minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments.

Cecelia Ahern

#7. He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating a world from scratch.

Barbara Klein Moss

#8. Studying history is for tourists - polite, tidy people with clean desks and clean consciences. Making history is for people willing to get their hands dirty, to make mistake and lie when necessary, so that someday historians can sit quietly at their desks and act shocked.

Robert Ferrigno

#9. In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested.

Ricardo Semler

#10. There is no code among men because there are no men anymore. Only monsters who sit behind their desks and give orders.

Karina Halle

#11. I wonder what NASA would think about me fucking with the RTG like this. They'd probably hide under their desks and cuddle with their slide rules for comfort.

Andy Weir

#12. They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#13. On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

Fred Allen

#14. A stiff breeze had claimed Athens, filling bedrooms, rearranging the tops of desks, touching everything and nothing, as if searching for something it no longer recognized.

Simon Van Booy

#15. I am only sorry that we were not allowed to shake the judge's hand, and then dance on the desks.

Richard Llewelyn

#16. And sometimes, I'd be allowed to be hanging out in the studio, which I just loved kind of, like, being in the room with these big recording desks, with all these, like, buttons and knobs and watching the guys use them.

Mark Ronson

#17. I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

Jean Sibelius

#18. I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.

William Monahan

#19. Children don't do formal learning at desks in preschool or kindergarten, they learn through playing.

Lucy Crehan

#20. No benign deity plucks television news show hosts from their desks in the prime of life and then hastily compensates their friends and family by displays of irradiated droplets in the sky.

Mark Leibovich

#21. The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.

Raymond Chandler

#22. The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab.

James Chanos

#23. Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.

Brian Wansink

#24. Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables

Edward Abbey

#25. You'll never make sense of his notes. You just have to listen to his lecture," Graham whispered
confidentially. "It's a challenge, but the good news is that he's been giving the same tests for forty years. The
answers are carved right into the tops of the desks. See?

G. Norman Lippert

#26. More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools, or medicine for our clinics.

Oscar Arias

#27. If Morrow worked with herself she'd try and sit a few desks away.

Denise Mina

#28. I always suspected that programmers became programmers because they got to play God with the little universe boxes on their desks.

Jeff Atwood

#29. When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.

Maureen Johnson

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

Emma Donoghue

#31. Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion.

Max Weber

#32. I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.

Dave Grohl

#33. Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

Rick Perry

#34. I like to customize things. I customized the back of old Lincoln to be my mobile office. I had one of those little laptop desks like in a police car, and I had a cooler in there, so that was my mobile office.

Matthew McConaughey

#35. Many thinkers worry over the progressive bureaucratization of the world and the social threat of its terror. Yet they forget that these very bureaucrats are themselves terrorized, and that they are terrorized by their desks. Once plunked down behind one, a man will never learn to tear himself free.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#36. I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'

Finn Wittrock

#37. In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

Norman Lear

#38. Nothing can replace a daily time spent alone with God in prayer. We can also be in an attitude of prayer throughout the day - sitting in a car or at our desks, working in the kitchen, even talking with someone on the phone.

Billy Graham

#39. I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

W. Averell Harriman

#40. If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

Floyd Skloot

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

Lee Child

#42. Students set up desks where you could sign petitions for legalizing marijuana or declare yourself in favor of homosexuality and the protection of whales; students thronged by.

Peter Straub

#43. Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks - cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

David Allen

#44. Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary school we were taught to 'duck-and-cover' for protection. But even as children hiding under wooden desks, we recognized the inadequacies of this strategy.

Mike Quigley

#45. Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it - at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.

Bill Gates

#46. Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

Woodrow Wilson

#47. All the desks in this room are bolted down, Sutton. Just so you know." Uh, okay.

Sara Shepard

#48. The world beyond is vast, but so small. Men putting themselves in boxes. Sitting at desks. Riding in cars. Ships. Here, the world is small, but without end.

Pierce Brown

#49. He might be mentally cut out for a desk job, but he doubted he'd fit behind most desks.

V.E Schwab

#50. Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.

Gary Lutz

#51. From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... technology progression yes... style?

David H. Millar

#52. People are salaried for the work they do, not the specific hours they sit at their desks. When you ding salaried employees for showing up five minutes late even though they routinely stay late and put in time on the weekend, you send the message that policies take precedence over performance.

Travis Bradberry

#53. Because if you fidget or wriggle or squirm or sass me or get an answer wrong, I'll wiggle my ears - (Wiggles her ears: they vibrate dramatically. MYRON and BEBE duck under their desks) MYRON and BEBE: NO! MRS. GORF: --stick out my tongue and turn you into apples!

Louis Sachar

#54. Providing jobs at three flat factories in Malawi to make school desks for kids who have never seen desks, and providing scholarships for girls to go to high school who would never otherwise be able to go to high school, is by far the most important work I do.

Donald Trump

#55. Between the two desks was one of those old Chinese screens, but even this bore Jenna's stamp, as the wood had been painted
you guessed it: pink.

Rachel Hawkins

#56. As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

Raymond Chandler

#57. My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

Armie Hammer

#58. Get back!" shouted Ron, and he, Harry, and Hermione flattened themselves against a door as a herd of galloping desks thundered past, shepherded by a sprinting Professor McGonagall ... As she turned the corner, they heard her scream, "CHARGE!

J.K. Rowling

#59. I meet them in this stadium, strangers at opposing desks until I wave my red flag.

Marina Leigh Duff

#60. We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

Kary Mullis

#61. Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.

Kate Klise

#62. Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Bob Dylan

#63. Don't look so surprised. You didn't think I'd spent my whole life behind this desk, did you?
And I suddenly realized that, well, I guess I had. Weren't all teachers born behind their desks, fully grown, with a red pen in their hand and ready to grade?

Gary D. Schmidt

#64. I don't want you guys sitting behind desks. I want you out in the park, watching what people are doing and finding out how you can make the place more enjoyable for them.

Walt Disney Company

#65. The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

C.S. Lewis

#66. Just as we can no longer pretend that ducking under wooden desks will keep us safe from a nuclear bomb, we must no longer pretend that a large nuclear stockpile will protect us from the most immediate security threats the United States faces.

Mike Quigley

#67. I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

Joe Davis

#68. She had always worked as hard as she could, at everything she did, and she simply did not understand how anybody could do otherwise. How could they sit there, as they did, and stare into the space in front of their desks when they could be adding up figures or checking the drivers' returns?

Alexander McCall Smith

#69. War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

Gustav Heinemann

#70. My palms began sweating as I took in the enormous, opulent study. Tomes lined each wall like the soldiers of a silent army, and couches, desks, and rich rugs were scattered throughout the room.

Sarah J. Maas

#71. Dear me, Mr. Day. You really do love to get fucked on desks, don't you? Put you on a desk, and you're begging for it. What is so particularly exciting about desks?

K.J. Charles

#72. There were filing cabinets, desks once occupied by long-redundant agents, tables, piles of paperwork, back issues of Spells magazine, several worn-out sofas, and in the corner, a moose.

Jasper Fforde

#73. 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.

John E. Jones III

#74. Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

Norman Mailer

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

Eric Idle

#76. I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.

Warren Buffett

#77. Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

Emma Thompson

#78. The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.

Susan Orlean

#79. Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk away from the desk he was so offended.

Andy Kindler

#80. Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.

John McCain

#81. Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men above his desk for her.

Cecelia Ahern

#82. I'm enjoying where I'm at in my life and I feel like I'm learning a lot on a daily basis. I'm learning without having to be behind a desk, so it's a pretty cool place to be.

Zac Efron

#83. An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.

Ben Ames Williams

#84. Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.

Brad Meltzer

#85. I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

Fernando Pessoa

#86. Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

Christiane Amanpour

#87. I've got drinks piling up on my desk and a stack of pills I haven't even opened yet!

Karen Walker

#88. You will never be on this anchor desk, because you're Chinese.

Julie Chen

#89. I can walk around fine, but I don't have a desk job.

Venus Williams

#90. I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.

Jon Foreman

#91. Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

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

Lorine Niedecker

#93. As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

Nadeem Aslam

#94. I don't have a Bloomberg on my desk. I don't care.

Seth Klarman

#95. The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.

Bill Kovach

#96. 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.

Ingvar Kamprad

#97. You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

Eric Burdon

#98. The view from space is like having a globe on your desk
it's a broadening experience.

Buzz Aldrin

#99. For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.

Jenny Offill

#100. If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

Charlie Brooker