#desk

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

#belt #cranking #desk #engine #gears

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

— Roddy Doyle

#days #desk #hours #i #i can

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#better #desk #dinner #dinner party #get

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

— Len Wein

#desk #side #sitting #which #you

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

— Bob Woodward

#city #desk #had #i #still

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

— John Grisham

#desk #free #free time #hours #large

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#away #books #come #deadlines #desk

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant. ↗

— Armie Hammer

#during #first #first kiss #food #happened

Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#across #always #any #around #babe

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh. ↗

— D. L. Hughley

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