196 Desk Quotes for You to Enjoy

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? Laurence J. Peter

Funny Mind Sign Significance Clean Cluttered Desk

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

You Nice Clean Pointless Because Doing Anything Means Desk

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass. Bruce Springsteen

Me Down Garbage Nun Distinction Only Had Priest Mass Stuffed Knocked Also Altar She Because Boy Said Grade Being Where Her Belonged Third Desk

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. Grantland Rice

You Sports Will Foe About More Him Match Dealing Years Than Eighteen Holes Across Teach Your Play Desk

I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me. Alexa Von Tobel

Me Mind Important Think Everything Visual Clean Environment Clearly Like Messy Am Very Person Place Dysfunctional Clutter Organized Desk

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel. Brit Marling

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness. Gretchen Rubin

Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list. John Ortberg

My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk. Lindsay Fox

If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general. Marcus Samuelsson

Best Good You Fruit Hungry Classes General Between Snack Very Banana Get After In-Between Your Workout Desk

Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It's inspired so many people and so much music - in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo chamber, and I think there's a little bit of a romantic thing there. Mike D

Music People Big Think Bit Has-Been Echo Inspired Terms Instrument Dub Been Mixing Big Influence So Many People Influence Where Romantic Central Little Little Bit Much Production Many Chamber Thing Desk

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

Writing Favorite Cat Am While Who Desk

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

Good Leader Good Leader Stuck Get Behind Desk

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death. Wendy Wasserstein

Death Myself Me Respect Sometimes Other Respectable Paper Say Paper Bag Out Shake Clean Clean Up Bag Bake Go Up Jump Times Just Want Grown-Up Desk

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school. Alvin Lee

I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable. Andrew Motion

I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there. Andy Daly

Teacher Time Me Class Sit Whatever Clown Energy Every Gave Way Would Andy Class Clown Minutes Small Had Contain Empty Friday Lot Impression End Comment Very Trying Did Grade Just Wanted Fifth Who Her Present Desk

When I had a full-time job, I would write dialogue and sketch characters on my commute and during meetings. Now, I forsake showers and regular meals and stay at my desk for hours, taking breaks to drink tea and eat something sweet, usually cake. Ayobami Adebayo

Cake Job Tea Sweet Meetings Characters Would Stay Eat Something Drink Write Had Taking Hours Dialogue Breaks Meals Sketch Forsake Regular Full-Time Commute Full-Time Job Showers Now Desk

Nine times out of ten, people consider a nice little Jewish boy the kid who grows up and sits behind a desk preparing your taxes. I've certainly broken that stereotype in many ways. Bill Goldberg

Broken People Nice Consider Nine Kid Ways Out Ten Stereotype Boy Up Times Behind Little Taxes Your Certainly Who Many Preparing Grows Desk Jewish

It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music. Brad Paisley

Music Great People Wonderful Smart Giving Country Big Down Progressive Out Record Horns Great People Driving Open-Minded Country Music Make Cattle Deals Very Bunch Sitting Front Behind Really Round Row Desk

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job. Brandon T. Jackson

Comedy Will Job Never Always Doing Up Hit Desk

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