Closets Quotes

• I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

  Cameron Diaz

  Jeans, Clothes, Denim

  Moviehole Interview, moviehole.net. December 18, 2006.

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• God is definitely out of the closet.

  Marianne Williamson

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• It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.

  Lexa Doig

  Stay Strong, Stars, Four

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• We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls.

  Connie Sellecca

  Girl, Four, Bathroom

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  Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

  Paris Hilton

  Women, Should Have, Pet

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• In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Shining, Hammers

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

  Maria Mitchell

  Girl, Giving, Needles

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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  If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Doors, Lgbt Pride

  Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination (the version of recording given to Frank Robinson) as quoted in Randy Shilts "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" (p. 372), 1982.

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• A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world.

  Paul Lynde

  Wire, World, Dangerous

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• Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

  Wavy Gravy

  Essence, Soul, Different

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• There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

  John Hawkes

  Skeletons

  "John Hawkes: 'I play nerds, psychos ... psycho-nerds'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.

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• I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

  David Niven

  Two, Clothes, Complaining

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

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• I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

  Randy Harrison

  People, Ends, Exposing Yourself

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• In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Father, Kids, Years

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• A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.

  Marisa Tomei

  Men, Voice, Able

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• Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

  Shelley Duvall

  Party, Two, Engagement

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• I have three closets in my bedroom.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Three, Bedroom

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• The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Light, Water, Democracy

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Broken Heart, Lonely

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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• I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Money, Clothes, Space

  "Sammy Davis Jr.'s Rolls Royce Hitting the Auction Block", www.foxnews.com. August 10, 2011.

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• In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find — and I hear from other people that they agree — that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, People, Giving

  "Test Yourself: Do You Have Clutter Mentality?" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Dance, Witty

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

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• I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.

  Andree Putman

  Believe, America, Dresses

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• The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Memorable, Heart, History

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• Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Knowledge, World

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 4 October 1746

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