Closets Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• My favorite way to style outfits is to really use a lot of pieces in your closet.

  Elsa Hosk

  Style, Use, Pieces

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

  Andrew Wylie

  Book, Half, Hours

  "Andrew Wylie: 'I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2010.

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• The thought of attention made me want to hide in a closet. I wasn't a kid who liked attention. I liked solitude and I still kind of do.

  Daria Werbowy

  Kids, Solitude, Attention

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.

  Kirby Dick

  Couple, American Politics, Decades

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the gay community, as a whole, is slighted by high-profile figures who remain in the closet. But I think that a lot of times we need to ask ourselves what that person's role in our community would be if they were out of the closet.

  Christopher Rice

  Gay, Thinking, Community

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• I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.

  Christopher Rice

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

  Christopher Rice

  People, Wish, Bars

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• I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Trying, Progress

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I've always been more visual-based. I've kept my musical tendencies kind of in the closet.

  Grant Evans

  Musical, Kind, Tendencies

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My closet was full, yet I was always focused on the sweater I didn't have, or on the next pair of boots. I wasn't allowing myself to take in what I had. I could never experience what "enough" was.

  Geneen Roth

  Sweaters, Boots, Next

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."

  Sammy Hagar

  Thinking, Ideas, Work Out

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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