Closet Quotes

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans. View quote
Cameron Diaz
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. View quote
Paris Hilton
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country. View quote
Harvey Milk
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on 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. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Indeed, many businessmen seem on the evidence to have been wary of the closet anti-capitalism of the rank-and-file Nazis. View quote
Richard Overy
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. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy? View quote
Christopher Atkins
Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight. View quote
Harvey Milk
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. (George Bernard Shaw)
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
God is definitely out of the closet. View quote
Marianne Williamson
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. View quote
Richard Garriott
Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. View quote
Omar Khayyám
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. View quote
David Hume
Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet. View quote
Douglas Adams
All those reports that I sleep in my closet. I don't know how people get that. People are so obsessed with what you do at home. View quote
Jared Leto
People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they are now more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet. View quote
Gillian Anderson
The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. (Rachel Maddow)
If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane! View quote
Eminem
LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Style is about fun. True style is not about having a closet full of expensive and beautiful things - it is instead about knowing when, where, and how to utilize your collection. View quote
Nina Garcia
The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books. View quote
Rachel Gibson