Top 226 Drawer Quotes & Sayings

I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.

Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.

I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.

He got the crib, so for the first few months of my life I had to sleep in the top dresser drawer, which I'm pretty sure isn't even legal.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I just work hard.

I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'

Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated

I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

I may not have any skeletons in my closet, but I do have a little box of souls in my sock drawer. —T-SHIRT

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams... He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.

You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons and screws and nails and bottle caps and jar lids – the drawer of jar lids! Why? Because they're made of metal and maybe there'll be another war and we'll need the metal. A friend of mine – I quote him in the book – says, 'You have found the source of the river eBay.'

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 in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit.

In my touring rig, there's a pedal drawer, where I'm able to switch pedals in and out, going into the front of the amp.

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

My mother was related to four of Jamaica's oldest families, and to say merely that she was out of the top drawer would not convey the quality of her breeding.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary.

Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer

In the house, I have a drawer that's just filled with Carmex. It's just my thing.

I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film

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.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

Wow," Liv said, when I dropped the mallet back into the drawer. "That looked like fun. I call dibs on the next over-the-top destruction of evidence.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting papers relevant to the cases. It helps me remember the details. And it was locked away in my desk drawer. Sherlock: The lock on your desk drawer was insulting me with its pretense at security.

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 used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the refrigerator has ever crossed their mind.

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer! ... That's the story of Jesus.

I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.

My first book is called 'Carry the Three.' It's definitely in a drawer, and it's terrible. I never sent it to anybody. My wife read it, but nobody else.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

Losing a parent makes you realize how temporary everything is - you're looking through someone's whole life in a drawer, and they're very simply gone.

You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer.

You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.