Desks Quotes - Page 27

• 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

  Thinking, Brain, Special

  Steven Brust (2010). “Iorich”, p.243, Macmillan

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• And it really doesn't matter if we're under our desks with our hands over our heads or not, does it? No, said Mrs. Baker. It doesn't really matter. So, why are we practicing? She thought for a minute. Because it gives comfort, she said. People like to think that if they're prepared then nothing bad can really happen. And perhaps we practice because we feel as if there's nothing else we can do because sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Thinking, Hands, Practice

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

  Patti Smith

  Loss, Desire, Emeralds

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.279, A&C Black

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• We're out of time, Payton. You said it yourself: the only way we'll make it is for us to go into this together. I know we can do this. But I need you to believe it. You need to believe... in us." Peyton didn't say anything for a long moment, and J.D. could literally hear his heart beating. Then she finally answered. "It would have to be called Kendall and Jameson." It took J.D a moment to catch on. Then he grinned. "No way. Jameson and Kendall. It's alphabetical." "You told our boss that you banged me on top of your desk." "Kendall and Jameson sounds great

  Julie James

  Believe, Heart, Long

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• The moment the door opened, Jace seized up a yellow pencil lying on the desk and threw it. It sailed through the air and struck the wall just next to Luke's head, where it stuck, vibrating. Luke's eyes widened. Jace smiled faintly. "Sorry, I didn't realize it was you." ... Luke indicated Simon and Clary with a wave of his hand. "I brought some people to see you." Jace's eyes moved to them. They were as black as if they had been painted on. "Unfortunately," he said, "I only had the one pencil." -Jace & Luke, pg.43-

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Sorry, Lying

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.472, Simon and Schuster

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• Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

  Terry Pratchett

  Clean Desk, Moments, Strategy

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• It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to all of the normal things and the weird things, too, like the back of his neck and his thumbs on the edge of his desk and the way his hair stuck out on one side like a little wing over his ear. She caught his smell once, and it made her dizzy. She couldn't fall asleep that night.

  Ann Brashares

  Fall, Night, Hair

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• Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep one in the pencil cup on my desk. Maybe I go with the wrong kind of people but i'm just not likely to have twelve guests all sitting around simultaneously eating fruit.

  Helene Hanff

  Mother, Knives, People

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• It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Rooms, Furniture

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.238, Random House

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• The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.

  Alain de Botton

  Country, May, Developing Countries

  Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Mother, Tree, Saws

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Maybe This Time”, p.4, Macmillan

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• In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

  David Levithan

  Senior, Jobs, Believe

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Well, you won't unless you come to lunch with me," Cal said. "I'm holding it for ransom. There's a gun to its heel right now." "I have lunch at my desk," Min began, and thought,Oh, for crying out loud, could I beany more pathetic ? "Emilio is experimenting with a lunch menu. He needs you. I need you.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Gun, Lunch, Needs

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.122, St. Martin's Press

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• We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can.

  Paul Arden

  Business, Perfect, Waiting

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• He couldn’t say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he’d learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she’d knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. “It’s fixed. As long as you don’t mind more than a few scars.

  Nalini Singh

  Hands, Long, Silence

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• My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down.

  Wendy Mass

  Fall, Flew Up, Bags

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• Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield’s outraged eyes. “We seem to be under a confusion of communication. I did not come here to ask for your sister’s hand. I came to tell you I will marry Hero, with or without your permission, Your Grace. She has lain with me more than once. She may well be carrying my child. And if you think that I’ll give up either her or our babe, you have not done nearly enough research into my character or history.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Children, Giving Up, Communication

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• I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring at her, trying to make her look at me. That happens in movies - people can feel it when oother people stare at them and they just have to turn around and say something. Either Ivy has a great force field, or my lazer vision isn't very strong.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Strong, Force Fields, Doors

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• Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Sleep, Night

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• Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

  James Lee Burke

  Trying, Umbilical Cord, Like You

  James Lee Burke (2009). “Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton drawer, retrieved a pair of Nighthawk binoculars, fixed the scopes on him, and fiddled with the focus. Gotcha. Hair the colour of coal. Chocolate brown eyes. A five-o'clock shadow ringing his craggy jawline. Handsome as the day was long... He sauntered towards her, oozing charisma from every pore. Charlee forgot to breathe. And then he committed the gravest sin of all, knocking her world helter-skelter. The scoundrel smiled.

  Lori Wilde

  Eye, Marine, Hair

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• Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk. "They're for you." "You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous?

  Holly Black

  Coffee, Panty Hose, Bags

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Blood, Hands, Secret

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.466, Penguin

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• Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Reading, Sitting

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 13, 2016

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