#desk

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

#already #clear #desk #down #first

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember. ↗

— Rand Beers

#answer #business #cannot #day-to-day #desk

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#desk #die #man #may #mine

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk? ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#desk #house #judgment #lands #leadership

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

#desk #going #happened #like #locker

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#cronkite #desk #doing #growing #growing up

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

— John le Carre

#dangerous place #desk #place #view #which

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#drawer #filled #kinds #prayers

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#less #limelight #men #midnight #more

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

— Hart Crane

#before #desk #everytime #gagged #got