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desks
«Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.»
Author: DAVID GRAYSON
(Journalist, Writer)
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cornfield, cornfields, crowns, desks, factories, hovering, litter, littered, littering, litters, lurking, self-sacrifice, weariness
«If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
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clean, cleaned up, cleanest, clean out, clean up, cluttered, desk, desks, make clean, sign, significance
«Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
argued, bossing, concept, desk, desks, frailties, get behind, go along, Human nature, jaw, jawed, likes, One Pound, persuade, persuaded, pounding, recognizing, requirements, scare, scared, stick, stick out, The Show, types
«People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.»
«I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.»
«County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?»
Author: Calvin & Hobbes
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
allowed, counties, county, definition, desk, desks, hello, hellos, library, not allowed, rattle, rattled, rattle off, reference, references, spell, swear, swear off, with reference to
«In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
desk, desks, fresh, fresher, freshest, his pen, lying in wait, mood, paper, pen, penned, ream, take up, the next, writer, writing desk, writing paper
«People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.»
Author: Stephen King
(Writer)
| Keywords:
desk, desks, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, jar, jarring, jars, small stuff, stuff, writing desk