Drawers Quotes

• 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

  Beautiful, Wall, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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• For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

  Steve Jobs

  Sleep, Night, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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

  Mickey Gilley

  Knives, Know How, Knows

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• My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Prayer, Office, Kind

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• 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

  Fall, Past, Interesting

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• Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

  Peter Bichsel

  Doe, Dear God, Asks

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• 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

  Girl, Shadow, Left

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2011

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• 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

  Cartoon, Would Be, Behind My Back

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

  Dinah

  Children, Film, Favourite

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• 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

  Real, Thinking, Rays

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• 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

  Song, Singers, Reeds

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• 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

  Knives, Cooking, Tools

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• 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

  Style, Dresses, Wake Up

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• 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

  Cake, Rejection, Bats

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• 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

  Love, Funny, Money

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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

  Simple, Labels, Want

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• 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

  Writing, Choices, Childhood

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• If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Persistence, Rejection

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• 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

  Memories, Crazy, Useless Stuff

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 27, 2015

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• 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, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Math, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.163

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• I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Girl, Memories, Bed

  Cynthia Kadohata (2008). “Kira-Kira”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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

  Camille Paglia

  Vegetables, Feminist, Feminism

  1992 'The Return of Carry Nation: Catharine Mackinnon and Andrea Dworkin', in Playboy, Oct. CollectedinVamps andTramps (1994).

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• In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Writing, Years

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• 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

  Mean, Lack Of Education, I Can

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Fashion, Antiques

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1160, Delphi Classics

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