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You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible. -- Mark McGrath
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 style that can only be called preposterous. -- Mary Schmich
I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips. -- Fred Saberhagen
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 faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. -- Steve Jobs
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. -- Pam Brown
My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers. -- Geraldine Ferraro
My house is completely organized from my closets to my drawers. -- Tia Mowry
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count. -- Mickey Gilley
We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
I'm a total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper. -- Keeley Hawes
Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else. -- Nigel Barker
The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig. -- Les Dawson
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film -- Dinah
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
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. -- Peter Bichsel
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 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
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
Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers. -- Anthony Weiner
My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers. -- Tom Conti
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
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
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
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
Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met. -- John Lasseter
Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook. -- Ellen Gilchrist
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
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 drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write. -- Laura Hillenbrand
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 drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write -- Laura Hillenbrand
I got married at 17, had three kids by the time I was 24, and have never had much time alone. I never had time to develop hobbies. Now, if I have nothing to do, I just find myself cleaning drawers incessantly. -- Michael Learned
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
I wasn't the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers. -- Lizzie Andrew Borden
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 work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. -- Isaac Asimov
I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system. -- Steven Hall
If you are angry, why not try this. Write a letter. Pour out all of your feelings, describe your anger and disappointment. Don't hold anything back. Then put the letter in a drawer. After two days, take it out and read it. Do you still want to send it? I've found that anger and pie crusts soften after two days. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I was slowly taking on the dimensions of a chest of drawers. -- Maria Franziska von Trapp
I'm addicted to women. Believe me, as Shaggy, after every concert, there's drawers that are dropping. -- Shaggy
Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside. -- Julie Kagawa
Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me We in like that, you're dead like Presley -- Q-Tip
Police on my drawers I had to pause 40 ounce in my lap And it's freezing my balls -- Eazy-E
She takes off your drawers and works you over, she calls you Twinkles and you call her Rover. -- Slick Rick
Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers. -- Billy Casper
I pretty much keep everything; we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine. -- Patricia Piccinini
The drawers in my mind are rattling to break open. Memories. Theories. Whispers and sensations. I shove them off a cliff. -- Tahereh Mafi
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
I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life. -- Joanna Lumley
To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions. -- Helen Rowland
Blacks should never be shown the greener pastures of education, they should know that their station in life is to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. -- Hendrik Verwoerd
Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other. -- Haruki Murakami
It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy. -- Margaret Atwood
The gourney, the big file drawers of the dead, the instruments of dissection - this sure looked like the morgues in the movies. Something had gone seriously wrong while she slept. -- Christopher Moore
People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood. -- Desmond Tutu
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 by night, a chest of drawers by day. -- Oliver Goldsmith
With girls, everything looks great on the surface. But beware of drawers that won't open. They contain a three-month supply of dirty underwear, unwashed hose, and rubber bands with blobs of hair in them. -- Erma Bombeck
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. If I ain't have no bulge, I wouldn't be smiling! -- Eddie Murphy
once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of hair pins pony tail fasteners, stashes of powders, colonies of tiny lipsticks (p.39) -- Barbara Blatner

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