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Quotes About Work

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.
~ Deryck Whibley
I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.
~ Douglas Sirk
My dad's a sound designer, and he used to take me to work with him.
~ Emilia Clarke
It's quite funny. I grew up with my mother: as a designer, she was always working, and I actually used to say to her, 'Whatever you do, never leave me your business.'
~ Emilia Wickstead
I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.
~ Naomi Campbell
I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
~ Carine Roitfeld
I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.
~ Colleen Atwood
I always think about my lifestyle when designing, so that's being a mother, being a career woman, being a wife, and being a woman who loves to entertain.
~ Emilia Wickstead
There's so much pressure for actresses to constantly work or constantly be desired in terms of a value.
~ Stacy Martin
I really just like to be at a desk.
~ Tom Stoppard
I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.
~ Brandon T. Jackson
Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.
~ Bruce Eric Kaplan
I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.
~ Katharine Graham
For me, it's almost a 24/7 process. It's not like I only think when I'm in the office sitting at my desk.
~ Henry Samueli
I want to die at my desk.
~ Jerry Della Femina
I'm going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, 'How is this going to create jobs?'
~ Gina Raimondo
You're sitting in the car for many, many minutes a day. Can that be part of your new office? Can it be your new desk, a place where you actually get work done? We believe it can.
~ Peggy Johnson
I work from home a lot. I think I get as much work done at the office as at home, and I'm used to working with people who don't work in the office. I don't really care where they are, even if they're on a banana leaf somewhere. If they deliver their work, I am completely fine. I don't need someone sitting at their desk to produce.
~ Kate Spade
I love all Goop products, but I'll always have the Revitalizing Day Moisturizer on my desk at work or in my handbag.
~ Amanda de Cadenet
I have a beautiful desk. I rarely sit behind it. That's not where my job is. My job is in the community.
~ Ted Wheeler
When you talk to people in working class communities about men, the women aren't telling you that their guys are looking desperately for work but can't find it. An amazing number of them aren't interested in working.
~ Charles Murray
Being on set is the thing I love the most, and a lot of the things that come alongside acting and entertainment are the things I despise, to be quite honest.
~ Cole Sprouse
Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
~ Jeffrey Bernard
I want to destroy the old concept that a company is a place where one sacrifices time for the sake of money.
~ Yusaku Maezawa