Desk Quotes

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
Geraldine Ferraro

Kinds, Prayers, Drawer

In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.
Bill Keller

Words, Find, Become

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.
Garry Shandling

Love, Funny, Strength

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.
Graham Swift

Mind, Thinking, While

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
Ed Bradley

Him, Remember, Growing

Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
Madeleine Stowe

Funny, Great, Character

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

Movies, Choose, Appreciate

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.
Margaret Haddix

Away, Times, Story

When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to me, they loved me, I was like their mascot, but I just couldn't stand working in an office. I just hated it. And so one day I went in and said, 'I'm sorry, this is my two-weeks notice, I'm quitting to become an artist.'
Maggie Stiefvater

Work, Great, Sorry

You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.
Regis Philbin

Business, Job, Done

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.
Margaret Mahy

Work, Rather, Days

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

Actually, Above, Earthquake

I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie?
Jimmy Kimmel

Night, Seriously, Rules

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.
Paul Kane

Business, Live, Lonely

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.
Hayden Panettiere

Time, Learning, School

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.
John Lasseter

Mother, Simple, Short

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

Morning, Down, Pretty

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

Great, Job, Enjoy

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.
Amanda Burton

Education, School, Person

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.
Amanda Burton

Education, School, Father

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.
Peter Straub

Everything, Until, Days

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

Time, Home, Thought

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.
Jamie Zawinski

Drink, Eat, Tidy

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write.
George Lopez

Work, Live, Long

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

Best, Down, Talk

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
Stephen Greenblatt

Writing, Special, Rituals

I wake up with the story in my head, so I really like to be at my desk about five minutes after I wake up. So I don't get dressed. I put on a bathrobe, I make tea and sit at my desk.
Ken Follet

After, Put, Story

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.
Vijay Mallya

Travel, Before, Leave

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
Joanna Lumley

Bed, Mask, Kitchen

Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.'
Graham Joyce

True, Find, Working

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