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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

  Billy Casper

  Age, Furniture, Aging

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• Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.

  Anthony James Leggett

  Years, Twenties, Pieces

  Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003.

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• 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

  Happiness, Dad, Father

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

  Andrew Bird

  Museums, Bird, Paradise

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

  John Irving

  Death, Grief, Loss

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it better if I could go into all the offices and storage rooms, I want to look in all the drawers and—discover stuff. And I want to know about people. I mean, I know it’s probably kind of rude but I want to know why you have all these boxes and what’s in them and why all your windows are papered over and how long it’s been that way and how do you feel when you wash things and why don’t you do something about it?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mean, Museums, Long

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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