This collection holds 434 desk quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Jaimoe, Don Hewitt and Jerry Della Femina.

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My desk is my drums.

I plan to die at my desk.

I want to die at my desk.

I was terrible at desk jobs.

I really just like to be at a desk.

The biggest boss has the clearest desk.

My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.

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

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.

I didn't want a desk job; I knew I'd get bored.

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

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

You can't run a multinational business from your desk.

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

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

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

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

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

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

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

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

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

I like walking into a smaller hotel where the desk clerk recognizes me.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

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

The way in which you carry yourself, even when seated at a desk, matters.

As a writer, I'm mostly at my desk, staring out my window. No one sees me.

I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.

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

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

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

Almost everything I've ever recorded, I recorded myself at the desk, in my house.

Good actors can tell you more about your play than 1,000 hours alone at your desk.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.

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

The best part about traveling for work is that it's better than sitting behind a desk!

To be honest, I didn't even know what the Drama Desk Awards were until I was nominated.

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

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

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

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

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

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

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

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

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