Drawer Quotes

137 quotes by 128 authors

Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer â€” unless we take them out, put them… — Mark Klett
You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there. — Wayne Shorter
When I was nine, I asked my Dad, â€˜Can I have your movie camera? That old, wind-up 8-millimeter movie camera thatâ€™s in your drawer?â€™ And… — Michael Giacchino
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep… — Nick Bantock
Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer! ... That's the story of Jesus. — Bill Hicks
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in… — Mark Twain
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. — Peter Bichsel
Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be… — Bill Buford
What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen. — Joyce Carol Oates
Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let… — Amos Bronson Alcott
I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands. — Katharine McPhee
My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer. — Carrie Fisher
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a… — Alain de Botton
Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until… — Amy Poehler
But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep… — Katharine Weber
Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he… — Martha Grimes
All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives, — Philip Larkin
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them. — Gunter Grass
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. — Robert Breault

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