When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.

- Bobby Bonilla

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I was terrible at desk jobs.

- David Chang

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.

- C. Day Lewis

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

- Chuck Pagano

I finished 'Heartsick' with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised.

- Chelsea Cain

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

- Christopher Parker

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

- Chris Christie

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

- Brad Barkley

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

- Brandon T. Jackson

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

- Alexa Von Tobel

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

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

- Bruce Eric Kaplan

If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

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

- Bob Woodward

I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.

- Aminatta Forna

For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'

- Anton Corbijn

When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery.

- Ann Leckie

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

- Anais Nin

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