Cupboards Quotes

• Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Mind, Shelves

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• I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

  Dawn French

  Home, Personality, Stairs

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• The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

  Penelope Lively

  Photography, Past, Bombs

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• Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

  Thomas Fuller

  Memories, Heart, Mind

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• We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

  Simon Callow

  Responsibility, Elderly, Blood

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• I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.

  Greg Kinnear

  Crazy, Character, Giving

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• A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

  Sally Phillips

  Government, Dull, Narnia

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• Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

  Arthur Keith

  Country, Fall, Civilization

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.

  William Arthur Ward

  Encouragement, Kindness, Criticism

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• To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.

  Russell Brand

  Dancing, Needs, Faces

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Some things come with their own punishments.

  Arundhati Roy

  Punishment

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.115, Penguin Books India

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• I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

  Gertrude Bell

  Locked

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• The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

  W. H. Auden

  Land, Bed, Cracks

  Another Time (1940) "As I Walked Out One Evening"

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• Let’s see . . . ah, yes, this is nice and cozy.” It was a broom cupboard.

  J. K. Rowling

  Nice, Cozy, Brooms

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• Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Medicine

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.18

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• If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.

  Susie Orbach

  Wrinkles, Hiding, Ifs

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• My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

  Jane Kenyon

  Fall, Writing, Poetry

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• Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new souls, drawn at random for some celestial cupboard where God keeps an unending supply?Or the same soul, immortal and eternal, refurbished and reused through endless lives, by that thrifty Housekeeper? In Her wisdom and benevolence She wipes off the memory slates, as part of the cleaning process, because if we could remember all the things we have experienced in earlier lives, we might object to risking it again.

  Barbara Mertz

  Memories, Years, Soul

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• I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.

  Sara Bareilles

  Chips, Tendencies, Stuck

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.

  Martha Stewart

  Hate, House, Bigs

  "Martha Stewart Geeks Out For Wired's Annual How To Guide". Interview with Mark Frauenfelder, www.wired.com. July 24, 2007.

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• When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

  Sylvia Plath

  Light, Numbness, Emptiness

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “The Colossus”, p.72, Faber & Faber

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• What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Lavender, Favour

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illus”, p.339

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• I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.

  Tom Stoppard

  Fall, Thinking, Elephants

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• When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Real, Ideas

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