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  • Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away.

    Taken   Thinking   Views  
    Janet Malcolm (2011). “Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes”, p.12, Granta Books
  • The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!

    Flower   Heart   Dust  
  • He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.

    Hero   Player   Tables  
  • I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while.

    Golf   Balls   Drawers  
    Source: wearegolf.org
  • We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

    Europe   Lucky   Drawers  
  • I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for an enormous red pen with a wide felt tip. "Stand here and we'll see how you've done," she said, which is sort of like a dentist handing you a mirror and saying, "Sit here and watch while I drill a hole in your tooth.

    Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    World   My Sister   Ends  
    Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.295, Macmillan
  • Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know.

    Vacation   Mind   Cards  
    Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press
  • I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

  • She takes off your drawers and works you over, she calls you Twinkles and you call her Rover.

    Drawers  
    Song: Treat Her Like A Prostitute, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988
  • I go to bed wearing a very baggy one-piece cheetah suit, just because it makes my son laugh. My sexy lingerie has been locked in a drawer for a while.

    Mom   Sexy   Son  
    "Single Celebrity Moms Who Manage To Do It All On Their Own (PHOTOS)" by Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.
  • Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton drawer, retrieved a pair of Nighthawk binoculars, fixed the scopes on him, and fiddled with the focus. Gotcha. Hair the colour of coal. Chocolate brown eyes. A five-o'clock shadow ringing his craggy jawline. Handsome as the day was long... He sauntered towards her, oozing charisma from every pore. Charlee forgot to breathe. And then he committed the gravest sin of all, knocking her world helter-skelter. The scoundrel smiled.

    Eye   Marine   Hair  
  • I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.

    Writing   Blow   Trying  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier.

  • All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.

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

    Prayer   Office   Kind  
  • I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.

    Memories   Book   Writing  
  • EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry And I know who I am I'll be a voice coming from nowhere, inside-- be glad for me.

    Sorry   Couple   Who I Am  
    Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.89, Knopf
  • The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?

    Digging   Want   Able  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer

  • 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 (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail
  • 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.

    Girl   Dirty   Hair  
    Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.40, Open Road Media
  • I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.

    War   Tears   Legs  
    Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens (2016). “CLASSICS FOR CHRISTMAS: 180+ Novels, Christmas Tales, Poems & Carols in One Volume (Illustrated): The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, Christmas Bells, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Mistletoe Bough, The Wonderful Life of Christ¦”, p.7033, e-artnow
  • OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.

    Book   Love You   Writing  
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.913, Delphi Classics
  • I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

  • Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated

  • The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.

    Girl   Taken   Eye  
  • My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.

    Sleep   Mind   Wish  
  • All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

    Knives   Mind   Drawers  
    Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.58, Faber & Faber
  • 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 quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.
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