Coming Out Quotes

• I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

  Bill Cosby

  Doctors, Speak English, People

  Address at the NAACP' on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, delivered 17 May 2004, Constitution Hall, Washington D.C.

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• Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

  Jackie Chan

  Mouths, Rush Hour

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

  Jodie Foster

  Years, Age, Stones

  "Jodie Foster's Golden Globes acceptance speech: Did she come out? Depends on whom you ask". nationalpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends if indeed they are your friends. You must tell the people you work with. You must tell the people in the stores you shop in. Once they realize that we are indeed their children, that we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will be destroyed once and all. And once you do, you will feel so much better

  Harvey Milk

  Children, Lying, Gay

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• I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

  Demi Lovato

  Strength, Beautiful, Being Strong

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.40, Macmillan

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• When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Love, Relationship, Crush

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.

  Jen Lancaster

  Baby, Believe, Records

  Jen Lancaster (2009). “Pretty in Plaid: A Life, A Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending,Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase”, p.167, Penguin

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• I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Memories, Book, Reading

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (1992). “The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1921-1929”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Issues, Faithful, Trying

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• who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Flower, Moon

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge. Oh yes, I can hear you. But I'm not coming out.

  Neil Gaiman

  Bridges, Yes I Can, Darkness

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the ending, but we finally find out who shot Bambi's mother.

  Conan O'Brien

  Mother, Children, Book

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• According to some reports coming out of Washington today, President Obama said Kanye West is a 'jackass.' Not since 'yes, we can' has Obama found a slogan so many Americans can get behind.

  Conan O'Brien

  Yes We Can, President, Today

  "American Morning" with John Roberts and Kiran Chetry, www.cnn.com. September 16, 2009.

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• All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Children, Book

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.464, Open Road Media

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• What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1873). “Marjorie Daw and Other People”, p.168

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• It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing under the rustic colonial clock and stared. He was drinking champagne. There were strings coming out from all around me, reaching out, waving in the air. Someone passed him a brownie. He held it in his hand but did not eat. He saw my shape and face, which had not changed-the hair still parted down the middle, the chest still flat and hips undeveloped-and wanted to call out my name. It was only a moment, and then I was gone.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Grandma, Drinking

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• I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  Sam Worthington

  Work, Thinking, People

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

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• Puck rushed into the kitchen. He looked as if he had just gotten off a roller coaster. "That was awesome!" he cried. "The arrow coming out is totally more fun to watch going in.

  Michael Buckley

  Fun, Arrows, Kitchen

  Michael Buckley (2011). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War”, p.57, Abrams

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• I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen.

  Paul Simon

  Couple, Believe, Writing

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• The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.

  Stephen Colbert

  Summer, Book, Home

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• Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction.

  Max Brooks

  Rain, Reality, Years

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Kings, Climbing, Intellectual

  "Elysium's director thinks his Hellish Paradise is our future. Let's hope he's wrong" by Mark Yarm, www.wired.com. July 16, 2013.

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• I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.

  Cindy Margolis

  Party, Pregnancy, Being A Mom

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• Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

  Gregory Corso

  Window, Stealing, Restaurants

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• A lot of the artists that are coming out right now are sticking to the formula of guns, drugs, money, all that other stuff. I'm not from the 'hood, I've never been arrested, I never shot anybody, I never sold drugs.

  John Cena

  Artist, Gun, Drug

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