Closets Quotes - Page 7

• I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

  Joan Didion

  Real, Way, Boxes

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Dec 18, 2011

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• She was getting bitchy.That was a good sign. "What am I supposed to do till you get back?" I said, patting the smouldering leather. "Hide in my closet? I"d rather be with you.

  Kim Harrison

  Leather, Said, Get Back

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• I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there's a lot of '50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around.

  Elle Fanning

  Fashion, Vintage, Clothes

  Interview with Lauren Tabach-Bank, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2010.

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• I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile there might be some wondrously perfect shirt down there, a nice and tough but I'm also a surprisingly good listener with a true and abiding passion for cheers and those who lead them.

  John Green

  Cheer, Nice, Passion

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.81, Penguin

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• Avoid secret's! Be open about which you are. It takes too much energy to hide in the closet about any issue.

  Susan Love

  Issues, Healthy, Secret

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• All those reports that I sleep in my closet. I don’t know how people get that. People are so obsessed with what you do at home.

  Jared Leto

  Home, Sleep, People

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

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• When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of the family dream, then I am honored to be gay because I belong to a people who are proud.

  Arnie Kantrowitz

  Dream, Gay, Men

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• I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet.  They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

  Alan Cumming

  Lying, Gay, People

  "Alan Cumming: gay actors should be out and proud" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I never look at myself as a closet actor wanting to make music or a closet musician wanting to act — I’m very proud to do both and I don’t put one above the other, I’m very grateful and excited by both opportunities — it’s really a unique opportunity to do both.

  Jared Leto

  Grateful, Unique, Opportunity

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• I don’t like doing interviews. I’m not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken.

  Jared Leto

  Who I Am, Games, Play

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• I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Kitsch, Shirts, Snaps

  "Taylor Made for Texas". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. March 7, 2012.

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• If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve! Because I know, with all certainty in my mind, there’s nothing wrong with being gay and you know it! And there’s nothing wrong with being into chicks if you’re a girl. And there’s nothing wrong with being into all of it…. How awesome would it be to be bisexual? To just walk into a room and go ‘MMMM, ALRIGHT!!!!’

  Henry Rollins

  Girl, Gay, Bisexual

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• My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't even think about it. 'Cause I can see into your soul, and I will hide in your closet and come for you in the night, and the last sound you ever hear will be my sharp teeth popping through the flesh of my gums, ready to eat you.' Their eyes get all big. It's awesome. I love little kids, man. They're the cutest

  Libba Bray

  Eye, School, Kids

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• Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open.

  Ilona Andrews

  Doors, Bed, Shifting

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.34, Penguin

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• Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Doors, Long, World

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Populist Manifesto No. 1”

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• All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Christian, Perseverance, Religious

  Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.186, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

  Alec Baldwin

  Running, Jobs, Writing

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• Somebody call Janet Reno - I think I just saw Donato dragging Doug Flutie into a locker room closet!

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Thinking, Lockers

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• You and I both know, deep in your heart, you agree with me. And I will prove it with one hypothetical scenario: you are alone in a closet of your home. There`s a bright red button. You can push that button and presto all Negroes and Jews and all other colored people are instantly removed from the North American continent and returned to their native countries. You`d push it, wouldn`t you whitey? See? See? See? in the final analysis, you agree with me. But of course, you wouldn`t do antything to bring that scenario about, or any other scenario favorable to your Race.

  Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.

  Country, Home, Heart

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• Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.

  William James

  Fashion, Doors, Personality

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• I don't have designer clothes in my closet. I just wear them once and give them back.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Designer Clothes, Giving, Clothes

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• I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.

  Taylor Swift

  Kids, Writing, Men

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• I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Men, Barbecue, Cooks

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• One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and closets for the night. In the dark she had made a loop and tried to pull it tight around her throat. But always just as the air stopped coming and she felt the rushing grow louder in her ears, her hands would slacken and let go, and she would lie there panting for breath, cursing the dumb instinct in her body that fought to go on living

  Sylvia Plath

  Letting Go, Suicide, Lying

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• Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Jewels, Curiosity

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