Office Desk Quotes

• En política necesitamos más despacho y menos escaparate. Que los hombres que ocupan cargos públicos sustituyan el trabajo nocturno por el protagonismo.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Hombres, Aceite, Oficina

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• A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

  Mark Twain

  Clean Desk, Funny Business, Desks

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• ¿De quién es el liderazgo, el criterio y los valores que se quieren en la Casa Blanca cuando esto caiga como un mazazo sobre la mesa del despacho oval?

  Rahm Emanuel

  Land, White, Office

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.foxnews.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)

  Isaac Babel

  Fighting, Years, Office

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• I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Lying, Father, Fall

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

  John E. Jones III

  Office, Lawyer, Court

  Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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