53 Quotes About Desk

  • Author Alexandra Stoddard
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    When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.

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  • Author Maggie Stiefvater
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    When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to me, they loved me, I was like their mascot, but I just couldn't stand working in an office. I just hated it. And so one day I went in and said, 'I'm sorry, this is my two-weeks notice, I'm quitting to become an artist.'

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  • Author Stacy Schiff
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    The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if you're 'an artist under oath' you're writing from a mountain of documentation.

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  • Author Tom Stoppard
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    My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

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  • Author Jose Antonio Vargas
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    While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.

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  • Author Bill Ward
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    I said, 'Hey, why don't you drop them off at the fuel desk and someone will pick them up in a few minutes.' And he did,

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  • Author Keith Winkowski
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    Corrections and the desk is mandatory, right? I can't see why we can't put road patrol on corrections.

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