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When you are attending a client call on a colleagues desk, and need to jot down urgently, none of the pens on his desk would write if not you wouldn't find a piece of paper within your reach.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about need

Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.

Quote by Tom Hanks about man, love

Make one that requires training or intelligence and only a moron will use it, but there will be more help desk calls.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, intelligence, help, use

You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about commerce, heads

No matter how you write it, the Desk Sergeant will want it changed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police

As soon as you've ordered the pizzas, 25 patients show up at the ER registration desk along with three ambulances all with cardiac arrests!

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine

Your buddies who were reading the paper at the nurses' desk a minute ago always disappear when you need help.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine, help, need

Your Boss will always call you, when you aren't at your desk.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about heads

When the telephone operator leaves the board on night mode all the calls would land only on your desk.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about night

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

Quote by Christopher Parker about joy, people

The best job for an author is to be a postman. It has nothing to do with writing, it gets him out in the air, he sees what is going on in his community, he can read everyone’s postcards, and he comes back to his desk refreshed, not weary of words.

Quote by Albert Joseph Guerard about literature, air, writing, nothing