Closets Quotes - Page 14

• I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.

  Jeff Bridges

  Appreciate, Shops, One Thing

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• No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Past, Men

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• Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their criminal behavior. Such behavior may not be dealt with by courts in history, but will be dealt with by God, either in history (e.g., AIDS) or eternity. The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality underground, back to the closet, to the dark realm of shameful activity.

  Gary DeMar

  Dark, Practice, Doors

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• Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.

  Milan Kundera

  Song, Baby, Sleep

  "Fictional character: Tomas". "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", www.imdb.com. February 5, 1988.

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• I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.

  Ian Mckellen

  Taken, Hard Work, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.

  Philip Pullman

  Inspirational, Funny, Jobs

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• I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love Lucky Charms and Cocoa Pebbles cereal. I love my purple couch, and I love dancing. I used to have the best stuffed animals, but Samson [her dog] ate them.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Dog, Baby, Animal

  "Leah Garchik's personals". www.sfgate.com. May 26, 1997.

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• I like edgy but classic looks - like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgier. My closet is just black, gray, and white. I'm more comfortable in darker colors and leather jackets.

  Ashley Benson

  Color, Leather Jackets, White

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

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• I don't have designer clothes in my closet. I just wear them once and give them back.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Designer Clothes, Giving, Clothes

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• The only thing happening in San Diego County is Eno and closet homosexuality.

  Kim Fowley

  San Diego, Homosexuality, County

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• As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you're a kid again, poking around in your parents' closet, only this time there's no chance of getting in trouble, so you don't have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.

  Roz Chast

  Memories, Kids, Dust

  "The Dinner Diaries" by Roz Chast, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.

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• When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

  Kevin Henkes

  Garden, Ideas, Clean

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• Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Dangerous, Happened

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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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• Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Tonight, Wonder, Feels

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• The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.

  Peter Maurin

  Coats, Poor

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• A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of 
  prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the 
  congregational setting.

  Richard Burr

  Prayer, Secret, Church

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• As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for [48] years I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds, and to show that gay love is good for us and for the rest of the world too. It's hard work---but it's vital, and it's gratifying, and it's often fun!

  Barbara Gittings

  Country, Fun, Teenager

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• I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

  Padgett Powell

  Soul, Made, Declaration

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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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• 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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• 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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• Like an ethereal presence
  You hang out everywhere.
  Not a naughty or scary goblin,
  Rather, an inquisitive observer,
  A concerned, caring custodian,
  Visiting every niche and closet
  Where we stuff the undesired
  Of our messy, blemished lives,
  You haunt territories we ignore,
  Hoping we will find you there.

  Joyce Rupp

  Caring, Naughty, Scary

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• It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.

  Robert Johnson

  Art, Skeletons, People

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