Closets Quotes - Page 4

• In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Gay, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• I think a lot of women have too many mini skirts in their closets.

  Michael Kors

  Thinking, Skirts

  "New York Fashion Week: Michael Kors Talks About His Fall 2012 Collection". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2012.

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• They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Water, House

  Charles Dickens, Madeline House, Graham Storey (1974). “Letters: Edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey. Associate editors: W.J. Carlton [and others]”

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• Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.

  William S. Burroughs

  Artist, Color, Museums

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• When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Peace, Money

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• But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
  Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days;
  Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
  And one by one back in the Closet lays.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Moving, Night

  Omar Khayyam, Saʻdī (1900). “Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh Námeh, the Rubáiyát, the Divan and the Gulistan”

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• No. . .I mean, I'm sorry he. . .You know, said those things to you." "It's part of being a 'good' family. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet.

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Mean, Skeletons

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• Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night.

  Beverly Cleary

  Mother, Father, Real

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• Keg in the closet pizza on the floor left over from the night before, where we were going we didn't really care. We had all we ever wanted in that keg in the closet.

  Kenny Chesney

  Night, College, Kegs

  Song: Keg In The Closet, Album: When The Sun Goes Down, 2004

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• Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it!

  John Flavel

  Hate, Heart, Long

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• Before Kady was born, I didn't think having a kid would be such a big deal. My attitude was simple: Babies are nice, play with them, put them in the closet until the next time.

  Tim Allen

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Tim Allen (1996). “I'm Not Really Here”, Hyperion

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• His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. “I thought I heard something.” “Yeah, well, guess what? I’m a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Doors, Breathing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Church, Looks

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• This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

  Daniel Handler

  Doors, Feelings, Bed

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• If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Way, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Fashion, House, Guests

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• Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Time, Prayer, Blessing

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• Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

  Daniel Handler

  Church Bells, Chocolate, Coffins

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• The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Doors, Left

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.33, City Lights Publishers

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• I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is to be very precise about the shirts that I wear and all the things that are a part of my closet. So the ritual of fashion and shopping became very personal to me.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Buying Things, Shopping

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• I have a very well organized closet.

  Greg Kinnear

  Wells, Organized

  "Good Humor Man". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. July 25, 2006.

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• The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Honesty, Gay, Insults You

  Late Night with Conan O'Brien, November 21, 2008.

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• The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Grandma, Dna, Long

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• Then maybe it's time to change that." Della sat back in her chair. "Change what?" Kylie asked. "Come out of the closet. You know, like...'I'm gay and here to stay.' You'd need a different slogan, but maybe, 'I'm a lizard and if you don't like it, I'll eat out your gizzard.'" Della chuckled. "Okay, it needs some work, but you get what I mean.

  C.C. Hunter

  Mean, Gay, Different

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• It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

  Alan Moore

  Skeletons, Jumping, Bounds

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