Closets Quotes - Page 12

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

  William James

  Fashion, Doors, Personality

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad air, as though she wanted to cut off his head and hide it in her closet, an envious and rueful love of him so amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed, a smile of tender dotage but also sinister envy that frightened me about her, a love she knew would never bear fruit because when she looked at his hangjawed bony face with its male self-containment and absentmindedness she knew he was too mad.

  Jack Kerouac

  Country, Crazy, Eye

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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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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• Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.

  Johnny Weir

  Trying, Tweed, Skating

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• I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA.

  Johnny Weir

  Fur, Peta, Not Afraid

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• My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

  Vera Wang

  Design, Dresses, Gowns

  "My List: Vera Wang in 24 Hours" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Cutting, Teeth, Young

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• The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

  Matt Taibbi

  People, House, Labyrinth

  Matt Taibbi (2007). “Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire”, p.21, Black Cat

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• I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

  Wilbur Smith

  Southern, Blackbirds, Species

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• I have so much hair; I have a separate wig closet in my house.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Hair, House, Wigs

  "Behind the Brush: Wiggin’ Out with Sherri Shepherd". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Size, Bigs, Disappointed

  "Why Don't You? Sarah Jessica Parker" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 4, 2009.

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• I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

  Donny Osmond

  Drinking, Grateful, Skeletons

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• Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

  Suze Orman

  Home, Psychics, Needs

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• Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

  Rachel Nichols

  Children, Night, Light

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