Quotes about desk
A collection of quotes on the topic of desk, work, working, doing.
Quotes about desk

“Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter
I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice”
Source: Alice in Wonderland

“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.”
As quoted in Burlington Free Press [Vermont] (15 February 1980)
1980s

1977
The First Three Minutes (1977; second edition 1993)

Source: The Discovery of the Child (1948), Ch. 1

As quoted in The Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan (1997) by Hans Dollinger, p. 242

On the Wardenclyffe Tower, in "The Future of the Wireless Art" in Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony (1908)

2016, News Conference With Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany (November 2016)

Speech regarding planned Democratic tax hikes http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1D6123EF935A25754C0A961948260 (16 July 1987)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)

Michael Lewis, "Obama's Way" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2012/10/michael-lewis-profile-barack-obama, Vanity Fair, (October 2012).
2012

“I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.”
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Achego-me à minha secretária como a um baluarte contra a vida.
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.”
Source: Stop in the Name of Pants!

“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
p. 333 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7725710M/Peter's_Quotations
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
Source: Heart of the Dragon

“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
Attributed to Dr. Laurence J. Peter. Earliest source is "Peter's Quotations," page 333. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7725710M/Peter's_Quotations
Misattributed
Variant: If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind then what are we to think of an empty desk?
Variant: If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

“Return”, p. 55.
The Teachings of Don. B: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme (1992)

WhatsonStage interview, 2010
Source: Beyond the Chocolate War (1985), p. 232

“We sneered at each other across the desk for a moment. He sneered better than I did.”
Source: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 20

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 37
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 78.

Hsiao Chia-chi (2014) cited in " Netizens ridicule official over stolen sun cakes issue http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/03/26/2003586548/1" on Taipei Times, 26 March 2014

page 86
At That Point in Time, Warning the White House about the Watergate tapes

Mechanism in thought and morals https://books.google.se/books?id=c5rOGqwLGaEC&lpg=PA47 : an address delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, June 29, 1870
Mechanism in thought and morals (1871)
Source: 1960s, Organization for treatment, 1966, p. 48

The first Lord's Song.
H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)

Inhale and Exhale (1936), Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia
"Lost Labor Love" (p.170)
So This Is Depravity (1980)

"The PC Era Is Just Beginning" in Business Week (22 March 2005) http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2005/tc20050322_7219.htm
2000s

Source: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 8

Source: The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005), p.119

Source: 2010s, 2010, Decision Points (November 2010), p. 475

Conversation reported in B.L. Rayner, Life of Jefferson (1834), p. 356. The exact date is not known, but the conversation took place in one of several meetings with the President during Humboldt's visit to Washington, D.C., from June 1 to June 27, 1804.

cited in: John J. O'Connor & Edmund F.; Robertson (2003) " George Dantzig http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Dantzig_George.html". in: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
Linear programming and extensions (1963)
Source: The Apophenion (2008), p. 107-108
#247
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

Column, 18 December 2009, An anniversary of sorts http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer121809.php3#.WzW2c8KWyUk at jewishworldreview.com.
2000s, 2009

Explaining his messy desk, NY Times Magazine interview. * 2015-09-21
Donald Trump is not going anywhere
Mark Leibovich
The New York Times Magazine
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/magazine/donald-trump-is-not-going-anywhere.html
2010s, 2015

The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005)

“I didn't know whether to run from my seat…I was in the line of fire. My desk is now a crime scene.”
Interview with Variety Magazine. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117962430.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 (April 2007)
Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living (2016) https://books.google.ae/books?idnu0lCwAAQBAJ&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIMjAE

Quote from Bonnard's letter to Ferdinand Martin, 3 September 1868; as cited in Eugène Boudin, G. Jean-Aubry with Robert Schmit - trans. Caroline Tisdall. Greenwich, Conn., New York Graphic Society, 1968, p. 72
1850s - 1870s

Treadmill to Oblivion http://books.google.com/books?id=8IC6ZSGPAAYC&q="A+molehill+man+is+a+pseudo+busy+executive+who+comes+to+work+at+9+am+and+finds+a+molehill+on+his+desk+He+has+until+5+pm+to+make+this+molehill+into+a+mountain+An+accomplished+molehill+man+will+often+have+his+mountain+finished+even+before+lunch"&pg=PA27#v=onepage (1954).
Armando Valladares. " Against All Hope: My 22 Years In Castro’s Gulags http://www.huffingtonpost.com/armando-valladares-/against-all-hope-my-22-ye_b_9933328.html," at huffingtonpost.com 05/13/2016.

The Guardian, 6 November 2006, The banks are coming over all chummy. It's nauseating http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1940584,00.html
On Barclays' rebranding in an attempt to make themselves appear less stuffy
Guardian columns
Source: 1950s, The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society, 1956, p. 3 Introduction
"Charm"
Albums, Charm (2006)

About Barack Obama's birth certificate. ** * Fox & Friends
Television
Fox News
2011-03-28
About Barack Obama's birth certificate. * Fox Goes Birther: Trump Tells Unquestioning Co-hosts, "I'm Starting To Wonder...Whether Or Not <nowiki>[Obama]</nowiki> Was Born In This Country"
Media Matters for America
2011-03-28
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103280006
2011-03-30
2010s, 2011

1960s, (1963)

Speech on 9 January 1928 to an audience of party members at the "Hochschule für Politik", a series of training talks for Nazi party members in Berlin
1920s

And then we discuss big business.
UFC Fight Night: Boston post-event press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlE8zHZBepg (January 2015) Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
2010s, 2015

2010s, 2018, Are We to Blame for the Alex Jones Problem? (2018)

Source: The Road Since Structure (2002), p. 16-17; from "What Are Scientific Revolutions?" (1982)

Source: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), In London, p. 67

Dantzig (1986) in: D.J. Albers and C. Reid "An interview with George B. Dantzig : the father of linear programming". In: The College Mathematics Journal Vol 17, nr 4, 1986, p. 293-314.

Ragnar Frisch (1970) "Econometrics in the World of Today." University of Oslo, Institute of Economics, 1971; As quoted in Robert Johnston, Graham Clark. Service Operations Management: Improving Service Delivery. Pearson Education, 2005. p. 347
1970s and later