Desks Quotes - Page 23

• Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.

  Mona Simpson

  Writing, White, Ties

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• The way I see it, more people are wired with broadband from 9 to 5 during the day than watch TV at night. So therefore isn't the real prime time 9 to 5? Playing games at your desk - that's the new prime time, isn't it?

  Mark Burnett

  Real, Night, Playing Games

  "Who Gets Games? Mark Burnett" by Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. August 14, 2006.

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• I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

  Jann Wenner

  Organized Mind, Freak, Neat

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• When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Writing, Irritation, Up Early

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• Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that?

  Caroline Paul

  Running, Baby, Morning

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• Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

  Charles Dickens

  Reading, Writing, Character

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.165

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• I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Ministry, Berlin, Lectures

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.12, Souvenir Press

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• My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

  Lindsay Fox

  Cousin, Father, School

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• I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance.

  Heinrich Neuhaus

  Order, Important, Trying

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• If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Sexy, Real, Dark

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• 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

  Cool Places, Enjoy, Bases

  "Zac Efron and Corbin Bleu Dish on High School Musical 3: Senior Year". movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• 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

  Heart, Groups, Gone

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I sit at my desk
  each night with no place to go,
  opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo,
  the whole U.S.,
  its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones,
  through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.

  Anne Sexton

  Night, Time Zones, Veins

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag,
  of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag.
  Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan
  useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.

  Anne Sexton

  Dog, Boredom, Mind

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Queens, Father, Book

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• I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.

  Nina Conti

  Thinking, Puppets, Nine

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• During bomb drills, we students were told to crouch under our desks. Apparently the desks used in classrooms in the fifties were made of an exceptionally missile-resistant variety of wood. During the Cold War years I often wondered why it never occurred to our defense planners to protect the entire nation from nuclear attack by simply covering it, from sea to shining sea, with a huge Strategic Classroom Desk.

  Dave Barry

  War, Years, Sea

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• Bush explained his strategy for transfer of power. It's a two part plan. Part one: clean out his desk. Part two: rent a U-Haul.

  David Letterman

  Two, Strategy, Clean

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• In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and even then he was little molested until his copy was turned in at the desk; today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire, and the reduction of his observations to prose is commonly farmed out to literary castrati who never leave the office, and hence never feel the wind of the world in their faces or see anything with their own eyes.

  H. L. Mencken

  Eye, Wind, Office

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• I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Writing, Men

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.2056, Delphi Classics

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• J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.

  B. C. Forbes

  Father, Work, Son

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• Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk of another to tell him, perhaps, about the wonderful score he made at golf on Saturday afternoon. This chin-chin immediately becomes a conference, and neither the office boy nor the telephone operator must disturb either gentleman. More idle gossip is indulged in at many business conferences these days than an old wives' sewing circle would be guilty of.

  B. C. Forbes

  Golf, Boys, Talking

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

  Fred Allen

  President, Ships, Vices

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• Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.

  Joseph Prince

  Fighting, Media, Voice

  "Finding grace and peace in a world of bad news" by Joseph Prince, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2013.

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• I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.

  James Patterson

  Book, Reading, Years

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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