Closets Quotes - Page 13

• Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely little Mary was Miss Femme, and she was -- except next to her gay husband. In other words, don't judge a star by her cover.

  Bob Fosse

  Kings, Stars, Husband

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• That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.

  Alice Hoffman

  Sweaters, House, Hook

  Alice Hoffman (2008). “The Third Angel”, p.13, Random House

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• I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

  Thomas Mallon

  Wall, Sleep, Paris

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• The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.

  Frances J Roberts

  Solitude, Soul, Crowds

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• I'm usually the sparkle in a closet full of conservative clothes. Either that or my customer has a closet full of my clothes and a few conservative suits from Calvin Klein. I think you've got to give a girl what's missing from her closet. If something jazzy, tacky or sexy is what's missing, I provide it.

  Betsey Johnson

  Girl, Sexy, Thinking

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• I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside.

  Dave Matthews

  Hell, Stuck

  "Song: 'So Much To Say"'". 1996.

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• Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.

  Robert Fulghum

  Way, Craziness, Mishaps

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.7, Ivy Books

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• I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'

  Fergie

  Saws, Cleaning, Evolution

  "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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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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• 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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• The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Prayer, Devil

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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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• I was a closet stutterer.

  John Stossel

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• For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

  James McGreevey

  Honest, Loved Ones, Open Relationship

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• The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

  Charlie Pierce

  Wall, Shadow, Monsters

  "The Lonely War Of Marlin Stutzman" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I think a closet full of things would actually stress me out.

  Alexandra Kotur

  Stress, Thinking

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• I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.

  Janelle Monae

  Four, Knows, Ifs

  "Hot Tracks: Janelle Monáe". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. September 2012.

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• I am a closet metal fan.

  Jon Gries

  Metal Fans, Fans, Metals

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2007.

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• In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor.

  Mel Brooks

  Real, Thinking, People

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• I've had a pretty crazy life. It's colorful ... reliving some of those closets that I had shut, locked and thrown away the key intentionally because it was painful to revisit a lot of those places - especially the loss of my buddy Robbie Tooley, the divorce of my parents, some of the things I went through as a kid, a lot of that stuff was locked up for a reason - it was painful. But at the same time, there was some therapy in revisiting some of those spots.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Crazy, Kids, Divorce

  "A Minute With: Billy Ray Cyrus on Miley and his "Hillbilly Heart". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2013.

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• As I've gotten older, I can look at myself more clearly and own the things that I'm good at and work on the things that I'm not. Like, I am not skinny. I know that if I were to lose a little weight I'd literally have more time in the morning because I know clothes would fit better. And now I can look at those things more practically. Instead of being like, "What does that say about me?," now I'm just like, "That would be great to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes because I wasn't trying on everything in my closet."

  Mindy Kaling

  Morning, Sleep, Clothes

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time.

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Grandma, Sharks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

  Phillips Brooks

  Beautiful, God, Voice

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.115, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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