Closets Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Doe, Holy

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.32, CCEL

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• Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should be as Jesus says, "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Philosophy, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.39, editionNEXT.com

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• Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet.

  Sarah Schulman

  School, Rights, Media

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• The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Beer, House

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3472, Delphi Classics

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• Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

  Evan Esar

  Family, Mother, Children

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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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• 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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• 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 miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.

  Ron Paul

  Missing, Social Pressure, Speak

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• Well I work up Sunday morning,
  With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt,
  And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
  So I had one more for dessert.
  Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes,
  And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
  An' I shaved my face and combed my hair,
  An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Hurt, Morning, Dirty

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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