Desks Quotes - Page 3

• Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Running, Thinking, Games

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

  Georges Simenon

  Light, Hands, Giving

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• People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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• County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

  Bill Watterson

  Library, Needs, Definitions

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• This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, May, Mines

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• No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Writing, Office, Special

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• Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

  Etty Hillesum

  Writing, Islands, Black

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.175, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Order, Should Have

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• Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.

  Ed McBain

  Change, Writing, Different

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• My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Prayer, Office, Kind

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• All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Years, Office

  "Burlington Free Press" (Vermont), February 15, 1980.

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• War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

  Gustav Heinemann

  War, School, Men

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• 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 Brezhnev

  Food, Cooking, Doe

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• If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

  J. B. Priestley

  Writing, Odds, Challenges

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• When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

  Norman MacCaig

  Teacher, Book, Paper

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• 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

  Humorous, Office, Doubt

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• You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing, and if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

  Ann Romney

  Decision, President, Looks

  "Romney features wife, touts 'character' in new ad" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. December 21, 2011.

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• Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

  Dinah Sheridan

  Smile, Running, Children

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• We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Oil, Office

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• Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

  Catherine Crier

  Real, Phones, Anchors

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

  Jamie Zawinski

  Office, Drink, Tidy

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• I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Couple, Fall, Play

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Christine Ehren, www.playbill.com. May 21, 2002.

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• People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

  Gary Oldman

  Careers, Ideas, People

  "Batman Begins - Gary Oldman interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons all under the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute.

  Ed McBain

  Running, Writing, Son

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

  Christopher Parker

  Jobs, People, Challenges

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