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Desk Quotes

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Happiness Small Desk Big Very

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Ideas Writing Desk Living Come

I was the most reckless little kid. I only had guy friends. I had a Nintendo, and when I went to normal school, I used to tape it under my desk and then pull it out and play on it.

School Friends Play Desk Kid Out

I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.

Robin Marantz Henig

Work Alone Husband Desk Living Room

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.

Joyce Carol Oates

Work Short Long Desk Begin Return

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

You I Can Desk Will More Things

When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.

Me Rose Attention Desk Nervous Boy

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.'

Courage Year Desk Say Never Years

I see friends of mine who have kids and continue to do their art. It's deeply impressive. I can't even fit an Amazon return into the day. It's been sitting on my desk for two weeks.

Art Day Friends Desk Sitting See

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.

Richard Branson

Good Leader Desk Get Stuck Behind

I have this vision of maybe going the way of Bill Kurtis and, I think, Tom Brokaw, to a certain extent - the ability to not be tied to the desk anymore, but to do projects that are meaningful to you.

Vision Think You Desk Way Ability

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

Me Painting Colors Writing Desk

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

Georges Simenon

Light Me Person Desk Hand Give Me

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

Advertising Desk Conference Been

Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.

Simple You Desk Know Side Contract

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.

Home Me Desk Empowerment Force PC

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.

Work Day I Am Bed Desk Office

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.

Live Desk Write Because English

I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

Wind Believe Gun Desk Know Right

Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

Dumb Desk Infinite Toys Reason He

Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?

Karin Slaughter

Business Words Story Dream Desk Nap

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.

Mind Down Desk Write First Need

I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

Happy Mind Me Person Desk Possible

I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable.

Life Great Night Dream I Can Desk

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