Closets Quotes - Page 6

• Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

  Denis Leary

  Believe, Skeletons, Envelopes

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• If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

  J. D. Salinger

  Player, Piano, Ifs

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on

  Charles Bukowski

  Wine, Blood, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.60, Canongate Books

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• One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Magazines, Time Magazine, One Time

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• What's become more important to me over time is to not try to sell myself as someone that I'm not, and that begins with coming out of the closet and gradually it's a challenge to expand that into other areas of my life.

  Christopher Rice

  Challenges, Important, Trying

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• We didn't talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn't talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn't talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.

  Linda Blair

  Mother, Ideas, Devil

  "Interview With The Exorcist's Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

  Amber Valletta

  Hurt, Believe, Trends

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• I was a closet stutterer.

  John Stossel

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• I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil. That's Catholicism. And so, that was my safety net. And I always say, it's probably a good thing they didn't hire a Catholic child, who may have heard about the devil, the things that were in the closet. And no one wanted to discuss them.

  Linda Blair

  Children, Safety, Catholic

  "Interview with The Exorcist Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

  Charles Barkley

  Skeletons, Cemetery, Whole

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• David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn't a special occasion. He just asked, 'Will you marry me?'

  Tea Leoni

  Shoes, Special, Will You Marry Me

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• The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.

  Andy Warhol

  Sleep, Wish, Looks

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Land

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• For like everyday, just kind of hanging out, I love flannels. Part of my closet, there's a whole section of flannels because I love them so much. Slouchy, oversized hats and fedoras. I just got these 2 amazing hats that I really love, blue and gold trim with woven material by D&Y. I love D&Y hats.

  Nina Dobrev

  Blue, Everyday, Gold

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• All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

  Mary Roach

  California, Clothes, Oakland

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• There hasn't been a more effeminate Jew in the closet since Anne Frank.

  Greg Giraldo

  Jew, Frank

  "Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget". TV Special, www.imdb.com. August 17, 2008.

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• I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

  Jennifer Morrison

  White, Navy, Black

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

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• You might be a redneck if there is a sheet hanging in your closet and a gun rack hanging in your truck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Gun, Might

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• You don't mess with janitors, first of all, they have like 40 keys, and 1 is to a closet you don't want to be inside of.

  Chelsea Handler

  Keys, Want, Firsts

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• I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.

  Taylor Swift

  Color, Used, Code

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I've always been a closet jock. With exercising, the more you do it, the more you get into it. And the more you see results, the more you're pushing for the next level.

  Michelle Obama

  Exercise, Next Level, Levels

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• I've always been a closet jock, but when I got married and had kids, that fell by the wayside.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Jocks, Married

  "Michelle Obama’s tips for being happy, healthy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.today.com. October 5, 2009.

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• See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Clothes, Problem, Shops

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• Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Money, Mean, Government

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• For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

  Chungliang Al Huang

  Mind, Bombs, Matter

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