Closets Quotes - Page 10

• When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. I was also a fan of the 'shoe closet.' Reading felt thrilling and illicit and deeply private to me, and I felt vulnerable doing it in public.

  Karen Russell

  Reading, Shoes, Fans

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• I admit I love clothes and I buy clothes. But they sit in my closet. I like a pair of comfy pants, flip flops and a t- shirt. And when we pick a restaurant, my criteria is: Where can I wear this?.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Clothes, Pants, Pairs

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• It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

  Phillips Brooks

  Beautiful, God, Voice

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.115, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time.

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Grandma, Sharks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am a closet metal fan.

  Jon Gries

  Metal Fans, Fans, Metals

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2007.

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• I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.

  Janelle Monae

  Four, Knows, Ifs

  "Hot Tracks: Janelle Monáe". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. September 2012.

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• I think a closet full of things would actually stress me out.

  Alexandra Kotur

  Stress, Thinking

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• The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

  Charlie Pierce

  Wall, Shadow, Monsters

  "The Lonely War Of Marlin Stutzman" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Country, Couple, Gay

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• Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. If the late President Kennedy could get together with Khrushchev and exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in common with each other than Kennedy and Khrushchev had with each other.

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Men

  "The Ballot or The Bullet". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman, (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• As I've gotten older, I can look at myself more clearly and own the things that I'm good at and work on the things that I'm not. Like, I am not skinny. I know that if I were to lose a little weight I'd literally have more time in the morning because I know clothes would fit better. And now I can look at those things more practically. Instead of being like, "What does that say about me?," now I'm just like, "That would be great to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes because I wasn't trying on everything in my closet."

  Mindy Kaling

  Morning, Sleep, Clothes

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

  Plato

  Men, Purpose, Upright Man

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• I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!

  Tom Ford

  Daughter, Fashion, Thinking

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• Anywhere I hang my heart is home... it's just the closet that keeps moving.

  Wavy Gravy

  Moving, Home, Heart

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• She goes to Frederick's of Hollywood at the mall and purchases an explicit lingerie outfit so sheer that you could read an appliance warranty through it in an unlit closet.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, California, Hollywood

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• I'm a closet Backstreet Boys fan. They're very sweet

  Sarah McLachlan

  Sweet, Boys, Fans

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• Yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban on same-sex marriage in Kansas. They didn't give a reason for the ruling, but then again when a state is famous for a Judy Garland musical about a rainbow and a wizard who comes out of a closet, do you really need an excuse?

  Jimmy Fallon

  Sex, Kansas, Yesterday

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• We-each of us-are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe. It is our true home, and thinking that this physical world is all that matters is like shutting oneself up in a small closet and imagining that there is nothing else out beyond it.

  Eben Alexander

  Home, Thinking, World

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.

  Asahel Nettleton

  Prayer, Humble, Mad

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 193, 1895.

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• Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Memories, Fall, Coats

  Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.

  Ilana Mercer

  Believe, Government, Political

  "'You Didn't Build That': Obama's Political Epitaph". www.wnd.com. July 27, 2012.

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• Twenty-eight years ago, I created my first game on an Apple II in my bedroom closet at a time when the interactive entertainment industry was taking its first baby steps. Today the games business has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry and we are just at the tip of the iceberg. I'm thrilled to have been a part of this successful journey and I'm extremely honored by the Academy's Hall of Fame induction.

  Richard Garriott

  Baby, Successful, Journey

  "Richard Garriott Joins Gaming Hall of Fame". uk.ign.com. November 08, 2005.

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• There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty.

  David Hume

  Morning, Night, Silence

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.339, 谷月社

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• A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Machines, Squat, Hamsters

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• For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

  James McGreevey

  Honest, Loved Ones, Open Relationship

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