Closet Quotes

#1. I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#2. A relationship begins when we open the front door, but it doesn't end there. He knocks on the closet doors too! Jesus doesn't just want in. He wants all in.

Mark Batterson

#3. 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.

Douglas Adams

#4. When I was a kid, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.

Beth Ditto

#5. There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

John Barrymore

#6. Austin. Interesting you were able to make it. I was just talking to Justin about you the other day. He said he hadn't seen you in months." Not since I'd fucked his brains out and he left my apartment almost wearing a goddamn disguise. Fuckin' thirty-one-year-old closet case.

A.E. Via

#7. The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.

John Shelby Spong

#8. Okay, I'll admit, I have a few skeletons in my closet; but they weren't skeletons when I put them there.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#9. I don't like doing interviews. I'm not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken.

Jared Leto

#10. I'm a holiday Christian at best and I'd never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kid's closet.

Thomm Quackenbush

#11. Just as discretion was the better part of valor, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in the closet.

Douglas Adams

#12. Because our society is so polarized between homosexuals and heterosexuals, the bisexual closet has two doors.

Loraine Hutchins

#13. I'd never seen a place so well appointed.
"This is too much," I said. "Much too much. I'd be more comfortable with something less fussy. Like a broom closet."
"All the broom closets are full," he said. "Of brooms.

Devon Monk

#14. And put me down right this minute or I'll scream bloody murder, then do the job for real!"
"I already hid all the electrical appliances, and I'm not taking a shower without locking you in the closet first.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#15. I don't do press for the sake of press. I tend to only be in the press when I'm introducing something or collaborating on something or whatever it may be, as opposed to inviting someone into my home to photograph my closet for no particular reason.

Ivanka Trump

#16. One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.

Ellen DeGeneres

#17. on expensive dressmakers who made her luxurious dresses. But she was too mean to wear them: she saved them up at the back of her closet, and most of the time she wore an old mouse-colored housecoat.

Amos Oz

#18. when the paint on the car starts to chip and the gadget gets tossed into the closet with all the others, you can't help but wonder if you've been pouring all your hard-earned money into the wrong things.

Carl Richards

#19. When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends.

Steve-O

#20. Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.

Henry Rollins

#21. The Gays have not only come out of the closet, but they have managed somehow to put us into it.

Charles Bukowski

#22. For the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them aside, all i want to do is hook one to the top of my closet door, lean my neck into the loop, and let my weight fall.

David Levithan

#23. I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.

Augusten Burroughs

#24. Hung herself in the closet."
"Hanged," said Nate.
"Don't be one of those people.

Peter Clines

#25. The water closet's rusting and slightly broken porcelain throne betrayed its purported grandeur. The air was dank and unrecycled. The motel room stunk of body odor because all of the windows were tightly nailed shut and never opened, even though that was in violation of municipal ordinances.

Daniel Maldonado

#26. People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose and meaning in their lives, and to have someone to hate.

Dean Koontz

#27. What's become more important to me over time is to not try to sell myself as someone that I'm not, and that begins with coming out of the closet and gradually it's a challenge to expand that into other areas of my life.

Christopher Rice

#28. Dallas closes the leather case, set to store it away in her closet. She looks at the message one last time, memorizes it, and leaves the postcard on the table before she walks away. You matter.

Suzanne Young

#29. It is astonishingly satisfying to look at him and think Closet Case, and know he can read my mind as he looks away flushed. All Mormons are gay, I believe. Rick is merely a further example.

Augusten Burroughs

#30. In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

Bruce Springsteen

#31. We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls.

Connie Sellecca

#32. We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#33. I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

Rachel Cohn

#34. 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

#35. He was military-trained, dummy. A stone-cold badass. He had a walk-in closet full of sawed-off shotguns. The man was Rambo compared to you.

Ransom Riggs

#36. But so far he's stayed so deep in the closet, they're going to crown him king of Narnia.

Z.A. Maxfield

#37. I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act.
I consider it a real physical act.
When I'm home writing on the typewriter, I go crazy.
I move like a monkey.
I've wet myself, I've come in my pants writing.

Patti Smith

#38. I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them ... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.

Jason Alexander

#39. Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.

Gene Perret

#40. I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

Oprah Winfrey

#41. It was very hard for me to put my life on paper. It was a very intimate process, very psychological, but at the same time liberating. It was like cleaning the closet, like cleaning the house ... It was very refreshing.

Thalia

#42. Closets, schmosets, everyone's out of the closet. Now where the fuck are the men!

Larry Kramer

#43. If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.

Albert Einstein

#44. Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

Antony Sher

#45. My father, a closet astronomer, has tried to explain black holes to me, how they are so heavy they absorb everything, even light, right into their center. Moments like this are the same kind of vacuum; no matter what you cling to, you wind up being sucked in.

Jodi Picoult

#46. I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

Taylor Kitsch

#47. If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

Linda Darling-Hammond

#48. It is true money will not buy you real happiness, but as a personal preference I would much rather have an angry strangle wank in the comfort of a private jet en route to Monte Carlo, than in a broom closet in the basement of a seedy crack house in Bangkok

Ade Bozzay

#49. To get around these things, Maus lived at the back of a closet. The door was

Steven Kotler

#50. It's amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you'd wear again someday?

Cheryl Richardson

#51. I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

Lynda Resnick

#52. You know ... it's like you live your life opening doors. One after the other. You open a door onto a hallway, which leads to another door, which leads to another hallway. But then one day you open a door and it's to a closet. It doesn't go anywhere.

Elizabeth Berg

#53. On the surface he might be callused, but looking through a creative lens, I see layers and textures. He reminds me of a folding chair, closed up and waiting to be shoved in a storage closet. I'm determined to see him unfold.

Katie Kacvinsky

#54. Never wait for fitter time or place to talk to Him. To wait till thou go to church or to thy closet is to make Him wait. He will listen as thou walkest.

George MacDonald

#55. Does kittykat know there's a pigeon on the clothes closet?

Jack Kerouac

#56. Names I am most commonly called by telemarketers: Simone, Slain, Siobhan, Flo, Stacey, Susan, Slater, Leanne, and Slow (Yes, my parents named me "Slow". That's because they hate me and made me sleep in the linen closet subsisting only on bath salts and Scope).

Sloane Crosley

#57. My locket hangs in my closet beside the glass, the only shining thing among so many shadows.

Sarah Waters

#58. I'd like to make it clear from the start that I am gay, gay,
gay. Like, when I come out of the closet, I'm usually wearing
my sister's prom dress kind of gay.

Gwen Hayes

#59. The reality is I have a closet full of shoes that I don't wear because they are not comfortable, and I am not going to be hobbling between meetings. There's nothing that ruins an entrance like somebody who's uncomfortable in their shoes.

Ivanka Trump

#60. Sweaters are a closet staple. They look great under a leather vest or with a pair of tailored trousers.

Nina Garcia

#61. 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

#62. Would you shake hands with the monster that lives in your closet?

Claire Amber

#63. Long story short, ghosts just coming out of the closet sucked at communication. Probably as bad as a beginner ghost whisperer sucked at getting them to communicate.

C.C. Hunter

#64. Two tiny corpses, one male and the other female, rattle around that enormous closet in my bedroom. Though deceased, still they are quick enough to hide themselves whenever I need to enter the closet to retrieve something.

Thomas Ligotti

#65. I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

Will Ferrell

#66. The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs.

Kyle MacLachlan

#67. There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

Johnny Weir

#68. I haven't prepared my speech yet," I sighed and Tove stood up. "What should I say about him?" "Well, if you plan to say anything nice, you're going to have to lie," Tove muttered as he walked over to his closet.

Amanda Hocking

#69. If my closet were burning, it'd be my collection of jackets I would save - they always make me feel pulled-together.

Nina Garcia

#70. They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Charles Dickens

#71. I wish his music came out of the closet and admit that it sucks.

Natasha Leggero

#72. I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#73. The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Charles Spurgeon

#74. They said the doctors could tell from the scars."
"Stop."
"Scars can tell you how old the wound is."
"Stop."
"When I stopped going to school, they came and found me. They found me in the closet."
"Sarah.

Amy Reed

#75. I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out.

Walter Isaacson

#76. More space for their clothes. I can't tell you how many times I've had nowhere to hang a single damn suit because a woman's closet was so stuffed. Hire a closet planner. She'll think you're brilliant." "She hired one herself a few years back. I need something she hasn't thought of herself.

Barbara Delinsky

#77. When you're young
a pair of
female
high-heeled shoes
just sitting
alone
in the closet
can fire your
bones;
when you're old
it's just
a pair of shoes
without
anybody
in them
and
just as
well.

Charles Bukowski

#78. Even when we weren't wandering, even from the floor of your closet, you showed the world to me.

Jennifer Niven

#79. I suppose ye might give him a wee dram that would keep him quiet so ye could tell them he was gone. Or maybe lock him in a closet? Tied up wi' a gag if it should be he's got his voice back by then, he added. Germain was a very logical, thorough-minded sort of person; he got it from Marsali.

Diana Gabaldon

#80. Beware the viper in your closet.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#81. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John W. Campbell

#82. Some girls dream of a big walk in closet in their bedroom I'd prefer a walk -in library in mine.

Unknown

#83. 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

#84. Possibilities
... in the closet
... itching
... to break out
... but afraid of
... the fallout

Ellen Hopkins

#85. Next, she put her left eye close to the glass-like square. It scanned her retina with a slide of dim blue-light. Immediately after the scan was complete, the gate glided to the side, revealing a closet-sized dark chamber.

A.O. Peart

#86. in the closet to grab a Sunday school

Tina Fey

#87. I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

Rick Springfield

#88. I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.

Jane Badler

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

Janelle Monae

#90. For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

Chungliang Al Huang

#91. My grandfather was a closet feminist. So,

Padma Lakshmi

#92. By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.

Kobe Bryant

#93. Mercy: "Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet."
Ben: "You killed someone?" Ben asked with interest

Patricia Briggs

#94. 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

#95. Listen, I'm going to go lock myself in the coat closet, okay? Don't disturb me if you can help it?"

She frowned at me.

"Telepathy stuff," I said. "It may not work, but I've got to try.

Alex Hughes

#96. A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.

Tibullus

#97. Miles paused at the door. "Ah - about Tav Calhoun - " "Yes?" "You know that janitor's closet on the second level?" "Vaguely." She looked at him in unease. "Please be sure somebody checks it tomorrow morning. But don't go up there before then." "I wouldn't dream of it," she assured him faintly.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#98. The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

Bruce Feiler

#99. I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'

Fergie

#100. When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.

Lizzie Andrew Borden