Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Gallico

Law is a mental hair shirt. He admits a great longing for financial independence from the routine of desk slavery.

William Matthews

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Zac Efron

I'm enjoying where I'm at in my life and I feel like I'm learning a lot on a daily basis. I'm learning without having to be behind a desk, so it's a pretty cool place to be.

In some sense, the desktop market is being hit with a double whammy.

Paul Otellini

In recent years, the notebook has seen great evolution, but the good old desktop has not. But the desktop still has an enormous installed base; desktops are more than 70 percent of all PCs sold, about 85 million units per year.

The goal is to get it to the president's desk today.

Rob Enderle

There isn't a player on the desktop that's at greater risk of losing share to IBM here than Microsoft,

Claire Coffee

When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.

Three years ago, this room would have all been desktop PCs,

Adhir Kalyan

I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone.

Ross Anderson

Something that goes on the desktop has to be a simpler and more structured tool with fewer configuration options. It has to be running in the background.

No, ... We looked at five factors. The most important was securing relative parity with MSN on desktop distribution.

This puts Yahoo Mail on par with desktop programs like Outlook and Lotus Notes, and offers a better experience for users.

We have procedures. We will follow those procedures. We will operate our snow desk and run our equipment.

Bob Davidson

When I'm doing the job of the conductor, no matter if it's snowing, raining or scorching hot, I love doing this type work. I could never sit inside at a desk or anything.

Michael Arrington

Everything's mobile these days. Let's go mo-bile! But really, that's just an IQ test. When you see bold new startups with nothing but a desktop strategy, you know they just don't get it, and you move on.

Corrections and the desk is mandatory, right? I can't see why we can't put road patrol on corrections.

Stacy Schiff

The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if you're 'an artist under oath' you're writing from a mountain of documentation.

Stewart Alsop

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

To be honest, I didn't even know what the Drama Desk Awards were until I was nominated.

We're taking desktop applications to a whole new level.

Dan Campbell

With Live Soccer Odds Desktop Alert, punters can now react to live soccer odds as they are published and monitor their favorite team using the integrated alerting tools.

John Burnside

With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.

Christopher Hitchens

Victor invented me, in a way. He gave me a desk and a sponsor and a place to hang my hat, which was what I needed.

Very strong on the revenue side, less strong ... on the gross margin side. But given the yields they're getting in their desktop products, and presumably in their mobile products as well ... my model would suggest that their gross margins are going to come in higher than their guidance.

The timing is 100 percent political. If you're really sincere about getting a gubernatorial signature, why aren't you working to get it on his desk when it is easiest to sign it?

Andy Grove

I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

Chuck Pagano

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

Nat Friedman

Those little things give a desktop a sense of physicality.

Vijay Mallya

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

Markus Zusak

You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.

Nat Friedman

Mac OS X isn't a free platform, and it runs on expensive hardware. It is not a plausible Windows alternative for our desktop customers, who are mainly large government organizations displacing Windows desktops and big enterprise corporations replacing Solaris workstations.