Drawer Quotes
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There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book.
Amy Lowell -
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
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We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice to pass it on and not just put it away in a drawer somewhere.
Margaret Anderson -
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 -
Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.
Amy Poehler -
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 -
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 -
John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.
H. W. Brands
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Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
Moliere -
I was just looking to ascertain the whereabouts of the proprietor when I stumbled across the Class A controlled substances that were in plain sight in the bottom drawer of a locked desk in an upstairs office, m’lord.” Leave the police alone in a room for five minutes and we start looking in drawers, locked or otherwise. It’s a terrible habit.
Ben Aaronovitch -
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 -
About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.
Soren Kierkegaard -
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 Pavement -
My mother wears glasses, and so do some of my friends. When they get new ones, the old glasses go in a drawer.
Erik Per Sullivan