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My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers. -- Geraldine Ferraro
We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count. -- Mickey Gilley
You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer. -- Christo
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. -- Dinah Sheridan
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
I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake 'The Snake,' man. I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer. -- Jake Roberts
I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot. -- Mark McGrath
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems. -- Italo Calvino
I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that. -- David Carson
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 draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line. -- Daniel Radcliffe
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. -- James M. Barrie
Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out. -- Clint Eastwood
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 I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears. -- Emun Elliott
Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress. -- Virginia Postrel
Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that. -- Gay Talese
I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special. -- Chris LeDoux
Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom. -- Jeff Kinney
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence? -- Marie Kondo
If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best. -- Caitlin Rose
I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception. -- Henry Bonilla
I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again. -- Ian Anderson
When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again. -- Diane von Furstenberg
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 to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. -- Anne Lamott
Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed. -- Jennifer Grant
Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer. -- Maggie Stiefvater
There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart. -- Victor Hugo
The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer. -- Moliere
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. -- Mark Twain
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
All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives, -- Philip Larkin
You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer. -- Drew Magary
I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it. -- Paul Beatty
Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer -- Mike Ingham
A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary. -- Helmut Krone
Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. -- Camille Paglia
I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer. -- Daniel Clowes
I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while. -- Stephen Curry
Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer! ... That's the story of Jesus. -- Bill Hicks
[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding. -- Dick Van Dyke
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
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
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film -- Dinah
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. -- Peter Bichsel
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore." -- Emily Dickinson
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. -- Emily Dickinson
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. -- Robert Breault
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
You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor. -- 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
I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be. -- Tom Peters
I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows. -- Travis Morrison
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 -- Franz Kafka
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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. -- Jesse L. Martin
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
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It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much. -- Graham Greene
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. -- Michael Jackson
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. -- Lord Byron
I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters. -- Kate Atkinson
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. -- Rachel Vincent
I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer. -- Brian Chippendale
Had records so stellar, they had to lock their resumes in a drawer at night, so the golden light streaming from the pages wouldn't keep them awake. -- Ilona Andrews
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. -- Lynda Barry
Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway. -- Sloane Crosley
One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living. -- William Hazlitt
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. -- Stephen Malkmus
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. -- Jeff Kinney
I go to bed wearing a very baggy one-piece cheetah suit, just because it makes my son laugh. My sexy lingerie has been locked in a drawer for a while. -- Sandra Bullock
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. -- Rick Bragg
If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer. -- Rainbow Rowell
Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates. -- Bill Dedman
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. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer "? unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, and give them relevance. -- Mark Klett
I laughed and it almost felt good. "Is that a dig at my liquor cabinet?" Cam smiled. "That wasn't liquor, it was swill. And that wasn't a cabinet, it was a drawer. -- Rachel Vincent
O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat, Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal. -- Hans Zimmer
Loss is a knife, constantly cutting, but over time the blade dulls, and the cuts aren't as sharp. It's always there in the drawer, but you realize it doesn't cut as deeply anymore. -- Shane Barr
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 precise awareness of its component parts and particularities. -- Alain de Botton
He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table. -- Franz Beckenbauer
Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer. -- Lord Chesterfield
The reality is you don't get stand offs who are expert kickers as well as top drawer runners. The trick is to find a balance but Phil is putting a lot of guys into gaps. -- Frank Hadden
Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing. -- Anne Carson
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff. -- Laura Wade
My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school! -- Natalie Babbitt
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 some of it in a drawer but never judge it. -- Nick Bantock
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 plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer. -- A. Lee Martinez
After six years of working on low-budget independent films of the too-weird-to-watch variety, being asked by DreamWorks to come and play with the big boys, it was like finding an unicorn in your sock drawer. -- Sienna Guillory

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