Top Drawer Quotes

#1. The reality is you don't get stand offs who are expert kickers as well as top drawer runners. The trick is to find a balance but Phil is putting a lot of guys into gaps.

Frank Hadden

#2. I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.

Celestine Sibley

#3. I am stealing more and more money. I keep it in my top drawer beneath my underwear, along with my diaphragm and lipstick and switchblade - these are things a woman needs

Lorrie Moore

#4. Yeah, I don't have a Yale degree but my bullshit detector is excellent. Top drawer, even.

Caroline Kepnes

#5. Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.

Jeff Kinney

#6. It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families.

Lemony Snicket

#7. Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates.

Bill Dedman

#8. Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer

Mike Ingham

#9. She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very, very few first-rate things in the world, and that those were mostly French.

Aldous Huxley

#10. He got the crib, so for the first few months of my life I had to sleep in the top dresser drawer, which I'm pretty sure isn't even legal.

Jeff Kinney

#11. Who are ye talkin' aboot?" said the voice, just at my elbow. "HOLY SHIT ON A FUCKING STICK!" I yelled, jumping as far to my left as I could, brandishing my weapon out in front of me.

Elle Casey

#12. The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

Alain De Botton

#13. The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Richard Rogers

#14. Two top drawers in the dresser easily accepted all I owned, but I looked into all the other drawers anyway. Then I discovered that the bottom drawer contained seven incomplete clarinets - without cases, mouthpieces, or bells. Life is like that sometimes.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.

Emily Dickinson

#16. If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

Jil Sander

#17. When I did 'Tokyo Drift,' a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own life. As I got older, I realized that I really believe in those philosophies, like the importance of family.

Sung Kang

#18. The problem with Christians is they aren't as good as Jesus. But thank God most Muslims are better than Muhammad.

Wafa Sultan

#19. Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

Francis Bacon

#20. Wow," Liv said, when I dropped the mallet back into the drawer. "That looked like fun. I call dibs on the next over-the-top destruction of evidence.

Rachel Vincent

#21. No returning smile from Ullman. He slipped Jack's application back into a file. The file went into a drawer. The desk top was now completely bare except for a blotter, a telephone, a Tensor lamp, and an in/out basket. Both sides of the in/out were empty, too.

Stephen King

#22. I think love is the most important thing in life. Whatever kind, however you define it, but I think of it generally as being greatly valued by another human being and greatly valuing another human being.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#23. Thanks,' I say, and the cloak of being fine that I wear with everyone else slips right off my shoulders.

Jandy Nelson