Drawers Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Ideas, Mind

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• 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

  World, My Sister, Ends

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.295, Macmillan

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• You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday) or something that deserves to be saved for posterity, it's discarded. I stop before I let myself drop something into a drawer or set it down on the piano. 'Where does it belong?' I think. If I don't have a place for it, I make a place.

  Michelle Herman

  Real, Thinking, Piano

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• 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

  Girl, Dirty, Hair

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• There is no authority but yourself.

  Rick Remender

  Authority

  Rick Remender (2014). “Black Science Vol. 1”, p.8, Image Comics

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Giving, Antiques, Unnecessary

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• The funny thing is you oddly don't really say goodbye to all the characters you've played. There's like a chest of drawers in your head that you can always access. They're always around. I'm not sure if that's healthy. But they're all there.

  Johnny Depp

  Goodbye, Character, Funny Things

  "Public Enemies - Johnny Depp interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• 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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• 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

  Work, Writing, Persistence

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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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• 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

  Sweet, Flower, Years

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.409

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• I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in my drawers, everywhere, in the kitchen. Everywhere, I have wills because I write wills more easily than I write love letters.

  Sophie Calle

  Writing, Thinking, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Horse, Voice, Bars

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• A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

  Pam Brown

  Friendship, Emotional, House

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• All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent to everything that I was anxious to wait for the moment when I would not be so indifferent and then kill myself. Why -- I don't know.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stars, Lying, Night

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.266, Modern Library

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• 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

  Love, Memories, Exit

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.9, Portobello Books

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• Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.

  William Styron

  Mean, Knives, Two

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Jessica, I know I've been...difficult," he said. "All the same—" "Difficult?" She looked up, her grey eyes wide, "You have been impossible. I begin to think you are not right in the upper storey. I knew you wanted me. The only thing I've never doubted was that. But getting you into bed— you, the greatest whoremonger in Christendom— gad, it was worse than the time I had to drag Bertie to the tooth-drawer. And if you think I mean to be doing that the rest of our days, you had better think again. The next time, my lord, you will do the seducing— or there won't be any, I vow.

  Loretta Chase

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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• I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

  Marian Keyes

  Cake, Underwear, Use

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• Dali blinked at me. "Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on the left." I opened the first jar and looked inside. Coffee. The label said BORAX. "What's up with the labels?" Dali shrugged. "You're in the house of a cat whose job is to spy. He thinks he's clever. I'd be careful with the silverware drawer. There might be a bomb in it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Jobs, Clever, Coffee

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