Desk Quotes

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

“Proofs of the week's paper were spread out on what I grandly called my desk. This was a rickety wooden table against the side wall outside the Editor's office.”
― Catherine Marshall, Julie

“But there’s something about sitting at someone else’s desk that makes you feel like looking in the drawers. I resisted the impulse briefly. Then I decided what the hell. I was a private investigator. Poking my nose in where it didn’t belong came with the territory.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, The Man Who Tried to Get Away

“At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that's covered this place”
― Andrew Boddie

“I have always been a anti-establishment artist. I once believed, and still do to some extent, that one could get a better education in a forest rather than a desk.”
― Casey Carter

“Do you want to sit down?”

She perched her butt on the edge of his desk, remembering alittle too late that she wasn’t wearing any underwear.

Easton levelled her with a cold expression. “On a chair, Carter.”

“Right.”
― Jane Washington, Tourner

“The Mauna Kea night shift was an 18 hour night in wintertime at the 13,796 feet summit (before sunset to after sunrise) with insufficient time for adequate sleep before the next night shift. Night shift was between 5 and 8 nights long and we slept at 9,200 feet. We sat at a desk staring at four large computer monitors and a large cathode ray tube television. I would also use my Wi-Fi laptop computer. I would have extreme fatigue by the end of every night shift and have chapped lips which I now associate with exposure to the artificial light from the computer screens. A good day of sleep between shifts was rare and starting the next shift fatigued was normal.”
― Steven Magee

“Generally I am using mobile phone/device and computer as my focused desk of the writing career the then rest of the elements are different news media, social media, social & global experience, reading different books, professional job experiences to work with different national & international and government & private bodies around the world with whom often I have to work together as consultative or advisory status but I’m feel free to express myself as freelance in all the necessary mode.”
― Hari Seldon

“A desk is no place to think on the large scale.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking