Closets Quotes - Page 22

• I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.

  Kola Boof

  Careers, Secret, Wish

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• Hey, its not much of a closet is it?" "No. Its not. I don't like closets. Life's to short to spend hiding in the dark.

  Josh Lanyon

  Dark, Hey, Hiding

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• Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

  Junot Diaz

  Years, Venus, Firsts

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage." "Courage?" he asked with confusion. "Hmm." She headed for the door to the hall, swinging her purse gaily as she went. "Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet.

  Lynsay Sands

  Past, Men, Doors

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• Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Mother, World, Needs

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• At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.52, 谷月社

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• I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.

  Robert Breault

  Giving, Chance, Discovering

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• The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

  Natalie Merchant

  Nerd, Research, Phases

  "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Struggle, Unconscious, Felt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Class, Smell

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.163, Univ of California Press

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• People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they are now more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet.

  Gillian Anderson

  Lying, Government, People

  "The Voice of Reason Speaks on FOX's 'X-Files'". St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 02, 1994.

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• If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!

  Eminem

  Nuts, Skeletons, Insane

  Song: Insane, Album: Relapse, 2009

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• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Race, Brain

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Mere Literature”

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• I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, House, Bottles

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero

  David Bowie

  One Day

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• There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Love, Relationship, Truth

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• If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.

  Jack Canfield

  Letting Go, Mean, Past

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 12, 2012

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• The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.

  Adrian Rogers

  Skeletons, Records, Faces

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• Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Diane Coffee is just the part of me that has always been a performer. It's something that's always been there and Diane Coffee is just the name I've given her for this project. But I was always the one who would raid mom's closet and get all dressed up and put on crazy weird shows in the living room or film little movies.

  Shaun Fleming

  Mom, Crazy, Coffee

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I met my new partner [in Indiana] and she asked if I wanted to move out of New York. I said yeah, and we got a house that's way cheaper than renting a closet in New York.

  Shaun Fleming

  New York, Moving, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Coats, Should, Bigs

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

  Sol Stein

  Jobs, Skeletons, People

  Sol Stein (2005). “Other People”, p.168, iUniverse

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• By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.

  Kobe Bryant

  Men, Numbers, Fire

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