Drawers Quotes

162 Drawers quotes by 146 unique authors

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and… — Marianne Faithfull
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it… — Steve Jobs
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me… — Anne Lamott
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel… — Joyce Carol Oates
I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't… — Daniel Radcliffe
We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. — Kristin Scott Thomas
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that… — Isaac Asimov
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. — Emily Dickinson
And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories. — Paulo Coelho
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics… — Jeffrey Eugenides
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long… — John Irving
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau… — Sylvia Plath
I remember it all: every word, every breath, every tick of the clock . . . everything that happened is with me forever. I can… — Kevin Brooks
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick. — Truman Capote
And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps… — Jenny Downham
About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been… — Soren Kierkegaard
My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The gourney, the big file drawers of the dead, the instruments of dissection - this sure looked like the morgues in the movies. Something had… — Christopher Moore
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered… — Orson Scott Card
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery… — Franz Wright
The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the… — Miriam Toews
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by… — A. Lee Martinez
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics… — Kurt Vonnegut
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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