Drafters Desk Quotes

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. ~ Mark Twain

I really just like to be at a desk. ~ Tom Stoppard

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk. ~ William Matthews

There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit behind a desk, and everyone knows you're supposed to be there, and that you're doing something that involves your brain. It's an odd, special kind of importance. I think everyone should get a desk; you can sit behind it when you feel like you don't matter. ~ Steven Brust

Sorry, this is the circulation desk. To reserve an item you have to go to the reference desk right over there. ~ Myself

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day. ~ Roddy Doyle

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk. ~ Bob Woodward

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five! ~ Reggie Lee

It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard. ~ E.B. White

I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk. ~ John Gilpin

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything. ~ Michio Kaku

The Constitution's framers intended to restrict central authority to the few areas that could not be handled by states. The drafters would be horrified at how the present court misapplies what they designed. ~ Doug Bandow

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

Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities. ~ Michael Dirda

You're much more beautiful now than you were back in school, and you were tres jolie back in your school days. No wonder Professor Easton deflowered you on his desk. Although had it been me, it would have been the desk, the floor, the wall, back on the desk but from behind ... ~ Tiffany Reisz

The vast majority of buttocks are overused, whereas that of minds are underused. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I want to die at my desk. ~ Jerry Della Femina

I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen."
"Oh! My desk. I could've sat at my desk. I could've sat at your desk."
"No."
"It's a vid set."
"Even then, no. ~ J.D. Robb

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on. ~ Len Wein

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

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk. ~ Simon Beaufoy

I finished 'Heartsick' with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised. ~ Chelsea Cain

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. ~ Hilary Mantel

The priority is to put bills on the president's desk that will move the country forward. ~ John Barrasso

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad. ~ Hart Crane

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I plan to die at my desk. ~ Don Hewitt

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous. ~ Elizabeth Hurley

I've always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can't expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient. ~ Audrey Meadows

Why is a raven like a writing desk? You see, they can each produce a few notes. Though admittedly, the notes tend to be very flat. ~ Marissa Meyer

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job. ~ Harold S. Geneen

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

At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that's covered this place ~ Andrew Boddie

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

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

For me, it's almost a 24/7 process. It's not like I only think when I'm in the office sitting at my desk. ~ Henry Samueli

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route. ~ Malcolm Forbes

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. ~ Robert Orben

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

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. ~ John McCain

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

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

When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery. ~ Ann Leckie

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law. ~ Tony Kushner

I acknowledge the challenge of believing in a supernatural divinity. After all, in the natural a rock is a rock; a desk is a desk; my skin is my skin. Or are they? That rock you pick up and feel on your skin and place on the desk is 99.9% empty space - between atoms; as is your skin and the desk. So, perhaps it is our perception of the natural or "real" world that needs tweaking, not the supernatural. ~ Charles F. Glassman

You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we were trying to hire directors, and this guy was like, 'I see you behind a glass desk.' I don't. And he's like, 'Yeah, the glass desk.' I go, 'I don't really see me as a glass desk guy.' ~ Jimmy Fallon

My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk. ~ Reem Acra

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is? ~ Jonathan Tropper

If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk ... " She eyed Jared speculatively ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

I was a public affairs officer. I worked with the media, but I didn't just stay at my desk. I assisted in military duties, travelled around Anbar province, hung out with a wide variety of Marines. ~ Phil Klay

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? ~ Albert Einstein

Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it was discouraging. On top of the heap sat a large red book with silver ~ Richard Preston

The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk. ~ Susan Orlean

The girl at the desk sat there smiling sweetly, but he paid no attention to her. If he couldn't find Riley, then maybe he should ask the desk girl out tonight and see if she'd let him fuck her. ~ Rose Fallen

I have always been a anti-establishment artist. I once believed, and still do to some extent, that one could get a better education in a forest rather than a desk. ~ Casey Carter

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

These tapes have been found, which were taken from the desk and various bootlegs. At the time we never got to hear them, they didn't seem to be available or they just got put to one side. ~ Michael Giles

I met the girl who works at the Doubletree front desk, she gave me her number. It's ZERO. I tried to call from here, some other woman answered. "You sound older!" ~ Mitch Hedberg

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it. ~ John Steinbeck

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. ~ Ray Bradbury

Adolescence is an earthquake, one that feels like it will never end while you're living it, and eventually there comes a choice. You can crawl under your desk and hide, or you can stand up on top of that shaking desk and dance. ~ Daniel Barnett

Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years. ~ David Rubenstein

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? ~ Laurence J. Peter

I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home. ~ Kenneth Lonergan

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass. ~ Bruce Springsteen

I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing. ~ Aminatta Forna

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available. ~ Marya Mannes

The teacher took two long strides and stood beside Parker's desk. Before the boy could speak, Mr. Earl threw the desktop open. For a second, he stared into it. A white glow reflected off his face.
"What is this?" he said, as he reached toward the brightness.
"Careful, Mr. Earl," Parker started to say, but it was too late.
The teacher screeched before lurching against the desk. He went down quickly, his feet vanishing into the desk last. ~ James Van Pelt

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they're doing. People don't look at me. They don't even know I'm there. ~ Jerry Seinfeld

They leapt over the desk, sliding under the half-open gate as the other men opened fire. A hail of bullets screamed above them, punching holes in the wall behind the desk. Caine heard a man shout in Chinese.
"Buyao sha tamen. Do not kill them! I want Sean Tyler alive! ~ Andrew Warren

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ~ Annie Dillard

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

And then he heard Mad-Eye Moody's voice, echoing in some distant chamber of his empty brain: Jump onto the desk ... jump onto the desk ...
Harry bent his knees obediently, preparing to spring.
Jump onto the desk ...
Why, though? Another voice had awoken in the back of his brain.
Stupid thing to do, really, said the voice.
Jump onto the desk ...
No, I don't think I will, thanks, said the other voice, a little more firmly ... no, I don't really want to ...
Jump! NOW!
The next thing Harry felt was considerable pain. He had both jumped and tried to prevent himself from jumping - the result was that he'd smashed headlong into the desk, knocking it over, and, by the feeling in his legs, fractured both his kneecaps. ~ J.K. Rowling

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you', I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot. ~ Leonid I. Brezhnev

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. ~ Bun E. Carlos

When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been. ~ Bobby Bonilla

Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act's drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law. ~ Alexander Viets Griswold

But there's something about sitting at someone else's desk that makes you feel like looking in the drawers. I resisted the impulse briefly. Then I decided what the hell. I was a private investigator. Poking my nose in where it didn't belong came with the territory. ~ Stephen R. Donaldson

They were having sex on Gifford's desk, if you must know."
Lucas's eyes glinted. "His desk, huh?"
"Yes." Amaryllis raised her chin, the better to look down her nose at him. "I would have thought it would have been extremely uncomfo rtable, but they appeared to enjoy it. ~ Jayne Castle

You do realize that you just left the writing desk behind to sit on the floor." Vin looked up. "And?" "The purpose of a writing desk is, well, writing." "But my papers are all over here." "Papers can be moved, I believe. If they prove too heavy, you could always burn pewter to give yourself more strength. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level. ~ Jane Yolen

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 Follett

Every time he entered his study, he relived the time she had crawled under his desk, tucked his shoe-clad foot into her side, curled her arm around his leg, and slept. After he finished his work, he pulled her out from under his desk and carried up her upstairs to a spare bedroom. ~ April Vine

We often feel the most stress, or the most emotionally hijacked, when we stare into the void of our jam-packed to-do list, in-box, or desk top. One look at the towering pile of papers looming on our desk, or the 300 unread e-mails, and our feelings of control fly right out the window. ~ Shawn Achor

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination. ~ Rosemary Mahoney

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best ~ Ingvar Kamprad

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

I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs. ~ Bill Gates

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk? ~ Rahm Emanuel

Kai froze when his eyes landed on the desk and he started to laugh. On the corner of the desk sat a small, grime-filled cyborg foot. "You're kidding," he said, picking it up. "I thought it was becoming a token of good luck," said Torin. "Although in hindsight, I can't imagine what led me to think that." Smiling ~ Marissa Meyer

If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them ... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can. ~ Keith Rabois

I grabbed the sides of my desk, as if I were about to pick it up and move it. Like a crazy person.
Cole walked over and noticed how I was grabbing my desk.
He raised an eyebrow. I think when Mrs. Stone said to take our seats, she didn't mean literally take our seats. ~ Brodi Ashton

I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright. ~ Jason Katims

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school. ~ Alvin Lee

On Memory: Imagine a desk covered with papers. That is everything you are thinking about. Now imagine a stack of file drawers behind it. That is everything you know. The trick is to keep the desk and the file drawers as close to one another as possible, and the papers neatly stacked. ~ Jedediah Berry

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't. ~ Guy Ritchie

It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens. ~ David Chipperfield

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

Simon picked a dagger completely at random, then sat at his desk waggling it about.
Jon nodded to it. "Nice."
"Yeah," Simon said, nodding back and gesturing with it. "That's what I thought. Nice. Very stabby."
He stabbed the dagger into the desk, where it got stuck and Simon had to pry it out of the wood. ~ Cassandra Clare