Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The military has said that they will keep me on. There's lots of jobs for me, from desk jobs to training, and what I really enjoy is teaching.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I hope your mind's not as empty as that desk

I never, ever, ever write with a red pen -- red signifies losses, ... I also keep my desk completely organized. I feel the more organized I am, the better my stocks trade.

This is a very powerful tool, potentially with a bidirectional metaphor. It's indexing all this stuff on your desktop and doing something on the Web. Who's to say that's not a potential breach?

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.

If desktop prices were weak, it must have been that they didn't see enough trading up during the end of the holiday season.

I have the letter laminated and sitting on my desk at home.

They were seeing some weakness in desktop and strength in notebooks, but not enough to offset the weakness in desktop,

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.

There is tremendous interest in e-mail and what it will tell you when it comes to an information request because that is today's statement of record. No one writes memos and tucks them away in a desk anymore. Today it starts and ends with e-mail.

Miguel de Icaza

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

You will see 32-bit and 64-bit products in parallel for five to 10 years. If you look at the desktop market, by the time you get 64-bit applications on the desktop for the sort of things we do in our home, it will be some time before we get into that space.

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

Paul Otellini

These processors are the first of many new low-cost PC desktop and mobile products from Intel in 1999, and they help reinforce Intel's leadership in this market segment worldwide.

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.

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.

The market for service desk solutions is pretty saturated. People have selected their products and they are a pain to replace.

Sarah Rees Brennan

If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She eyed Jared speculatively

William Matthews

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

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.

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

Vijay Mallya

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