Desks Quotes - Page 16

• Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

  Roddy Doyle

  Nine, Hours, I Can

  "Book Talk: Roddy Doyle and Irish ghosts". Interview with Pauline Askin, in.reuters.com. May 31, 2012.

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• 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, Writing

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• At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Morning, Past

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

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• I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

  James Herbert

  Morning, Terrible

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• When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.

  Paul Dirac

  Science, Biographies, Rooms

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• 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

  Gun, Men, Evil

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• The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Queens, Humor, Legends

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• My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

  Janet Fitch

  Writing, House, Littles

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• 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

  Thinking, Mind, Sitting

  "Triumph of the common man" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2003.

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• There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, "This can't be my life..."

  Laz Alonso

  Book, Sitting, Suits

  "Laz Alonso talks James Cameron's AVATAR - Could it be the first of a Trilogy?". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2009.

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• I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.

  Joy Behar

  Stress, Confusion, Creative

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• 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

  Drama, School, Sitting

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• Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

  Brian Chesky

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

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• 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

  Girl, Air, Faults

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

  Paula Fox

  Motivational, Encouragement, Stories

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• 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

  Writing, Sitting, Blank

  Brad Meltzer (2013). “The Fifth Assassin: The Culper Ring Trilogy 2”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Order, Example, Looks

  "Prize-winning author Graham Joyce to write script for Doom 4" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

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• 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

  Writing, People, Way

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

  Vijay Mallya

  Unfinished

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• He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.

  John Hiatt

  Education, Kids, Ties

  Song: The Night That Kenny Died, Album: Slug Line

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• The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk.

  Alice Cooper

  Education, Stress, Boys

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• We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

  Alice Cooper

  Education, Dirty, Math

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• I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.

  Dylan Lauren

  Sitting Still, Blackberries, Stills

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• I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

  Chuck Pagano

  Right Now, Related, I Can

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• 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. So I'm - even though I'm not per se sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

  Hayden Panettiere

  School, Class, Long

  "Hayden Panettiere and Masi Oka Return for Heroes Volume 5: Redemption". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. September 14, 2009.

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