Drawers Quotes

162 Drawers quotes by 146 unique authors

The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed… — Oliver Goldsmith
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys. — Martin Yan
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a… — Mary Schmich
Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put them… — Unknown Author
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in… — Laura Hillenbrand
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, ‘Can I have your movie camera? That old, wind-up 8-millimeter movie camera that’s in your drawer?’ And… — Michael Giacchino
Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the… — Jandy Nelson
Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up. — Gary Lutz
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
I been seeing newspapers every Sunday morning, white dudes be in there in their drawers, never having no bulge in they drawers. Smiling at you.… — Eddie Murphy
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

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