Top 100 Sayings About The Closet
#1. 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
#2. I've always been a very private individual. For a lot of reasons. But mainly one. The man I lived with for all that time. The monster in the closet who I protected.
Dan Skinner
#3. We're beginning to play God and get into cloning. We give up quickly. Divorce is an easy option. So why not just create your own mate? Synthesize a human being. You get tired of it, turn it off and put it in the closet like the vacuum cleaner.
Lenny Kravitz
#4. Components of today include a shape asleep on the floor an erased white world the tumblers vibrating in the closet and he brought the wrong book. Alive in a room as usual.
Anne Carson
#5. You're scared?'
He shook his head. 'Floppy's scared.'
'What's Floppy scared of?'
'The man in the closet
Julie Kagawa
#6. Frantically, he scans the room, settling on the closet.
Brayden sighs, 'Seriously, dude? Must we live the cliche?'
Lynn Kelling
#7. 'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
R. Kelly
#9. They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations.
Drake
#10. People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but (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.
Gillian Anderson
#11. I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.
Rufus Wainwright
#12. My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.'
R. Kelly
#13. All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#14. I don't mind being introduced to people's skeletons firsthand, in person. I more than don't mind it. I prefer to reach right into the closet and shake their bony hands and say hello for myself.
Emery Lord
#15. Wrath walked over to the closet and looked throught the clothes. He took out a black long-sleeved shirt, a pair of leather pants, and
jeez, what was this? Oh, not fucking likely. He was not going to fight in BVDs. He'd go commando before he got cought dead inthose things.
J.R. Ward
#16. She's in the closet." Bric and I exchange a glance. "I gagged her. I didn't fucking know what to do. I just - Goddammit. I just grabbed the ball gag from the drawer, hooked it on her, tied her hands behind her back, and threw her in our closet." "OK,
J.A. Huss
#17. The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.
Bruce Feiler
#18. Nearly thirty years on, despite Pejic's unpopularity with some feminists and the closet-cases who write for US FHM, 1980s Marilyn and his shameless, shining desire to be desired looks more like a glamorous prophet, preparing the way for the Metrosexy 21st Century.
Mark Simpson
#19. In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
Ram Dass
#20. Next thing Driggs knew, Lex was rummaging around in the closet. 'Are you looking for your sanity?' he called after her. 'Because I do believe it showed itself out a while ago.
Gina Damico
#21. Why can't rappers just say nice things? Like I wanna take your clothes off and hang them up in the closet real nice.
Ellen DeGeneres
#22. In the closet, in my nest of human cloth, I dreamt of skinless people, a world of living meat, clinched in a wounded hug and finally understanding. We would truly feel the cold, we would truly know each other.
Colin McAdam
#23. There hasn't been a more effeminate Jew in the closet since Anne Frank.
Greg Giraldo
#24. I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.
Jamie Farr
#25. Keg in the closet pizza on the floor left over from the night before, where we were going we didn't really care. We had all we ever wanted in that keg in the closet.
Kenny Chesney
#26. There are so many people in the closet, and we are giving them an opportunity to come out of the closet and just admit they like to smoke.
Snoop Dogg
#27. But sometimes the monster in the closet was really just a worthless clown in a coma.
Anne Frasier
#28. Soaked in pain
my suits remain standing
when I take them off -
hollow men beside the closet,
a museum of days.
Chad Sweeney
#29. I think people understand me, me as a person and what I went through because I kept it on the plate. I never hid nothing. I was never in the closet. I smoked dope, I gang banged, I did this, I did that; whatever I did it was always out.
Snoop Dogg
#30. If Duncan was ever into men then he's been so far in the closet he's been living in Narnia.
Dana Marie Bell
#31. The difference between comfort and nurture is this: if you have a plant that is sick because you keep it in a dark closet, and you say soothing words to it, that is comfort.If you take out of the closet and put in the sun, give it something to drink, and then talk to it, that is nurture
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#32. It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet.
Kelly Braffet
#33. The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
Jane Porter
#34. If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own.
Isaac Newton
#35. Is this what they mean when they talk about coming out of the closet?" Zane
Abigail Roux
#37. The closet is a closet, but it's also a rocket or a tree house. Your mind is a palace, as long as you go in the right rooms.
Erin Entrada Kelly
#38. I got my boots out of the closet, put them on, and buckled a belt with a knife on it around my waist under my robe. Baha-char was the place where you went to find things. Sometimes things found you instead and tried to take your money.
Ilona Andrews
#39. I peeked my head into the closet, looking for a trap door, hand grenades, the wardrobe to Narnia - anything that might help.
Mark Tufo
#40. People at shows have told me that they've shown my videos to their parents and families to help them come out of the closet. It's very inspiring that comedy can do that and can help people cope with everyday life and challenges through humor.
Margaret Cho
#41. A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.
Tibullus
#42. 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
#43. in the closet to grab a Sunday school
Tina Fey
#44. Possibilities
... in the closet
... itching
... to break out
... but afraid of
... the fallout
Ellen Hopkins
#45. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.
John W. Campbell
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.
Charles Spurgeon
#49. 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
#50. I wish his music came out of the closet and admit that it sucks.
Natasha Leggero
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Closets, schmosets, everyone's out of the closet. Now where the fuck are the men!
Larry Kramer
#57. 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
#58. I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.
Oprah Winfrey
#59. 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
#60. But so far he's stayed so deep in the closet, they're going to crown him king of Narnia.
Z.A. Maxfield
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Hung herself in the closet."
"Hanged," said Nate.
"Don't be one of those people.
Peter Clines
#65. The Gays have not only come out of the closet, but they have managed somehow to put us into it.
Charles Bukowski
#66. 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
#67. I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.
Padgett Powell
#68. At Chadham High, the safest place to be gay was in the closet.
Huston Piner
#69. I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
Ben Folds
#70. She's been fucking someone else. She's still fucking Duane. She's getting back together with Duane and they're getting married. Duane's in the closet with a video camera and a gun.
Chad Kultgen
#71. My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was scared that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.
Stephen King
#72. Before Kady was born, I didn't think having a kid would be such a big deal. My attitude was simple: Babies are nice, play with them, put them in the closet until the next time.
Tim Allen
#73. When I'd first brought it home from the thrift store, I'd planned to keep it in the closet I shared with Summer, But Jordis asked me to hang it in full view of the room because she liked the glitter.
Jennifer Echols
#74. I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.
Christopher Rice
#75. It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil.
James Robison
#76. At least I'm real about who I am, bitch! You're so far in the closet you're having adventures in Narnia!" Who
Alisha Ashton
#77. There is nothing more boring, anyway, than sexual activity as an end in itself, and a great many people who came out of the closet should reconsider.
James Baldwin
#78. When she realized that there are many kinds of love and not all of them are obvious. That some wait like presents in the back of the closet until you are able to open them.
Erica Bauermeister
#79. I knew this id who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no matter what anyone else might want for you.
Madeleine George
#80. People dance and we have a lot of music and ... this might be the closet I get for a while.
Cameron Crowe
#81. But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.
James McGreevey
#82. Of course I'm going to the front door like a stupid chick in a horror movie," he muttered. On his way to the door, he doubled back and grabbed a baseball bat from the closet. "Now I just have to remember not to go outside and ask if anyone is there.
Amanda Hocking
#83. You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road
Salena Godden
#84. Because you're well and truly in the closet at the back of the warehouse with the door shut, packaged up for some secure shipping container to shunt you out to the back of beyond...it's hypocritical. You're so far in the closet Narnia's your holiday home.
Kiki Archer
#85. It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.
Cybill Shepherd
#86. My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.
Sue Townsend
#87. One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
Edmund White
#88. How the fuck did a mummy get stuck under our floorboards?"
Shaking my head, I smile. "I have no idea." I point toward the hallway leading to the closet between our bedroom doors. "Grab the explosives.
Khalia Hades
#89. I'm assuming you didn't just call me to come out of the closet to a blind woman'
'Oh, it's something I do everyday,' Kate said, enjoying Faith's sense of humor. 'I open up a phone book, randomly select a name, dial it, and when they answer, I proclaim I'm a lesbian and then hang up.
Laurie Salzler
#90. I fought the mighty urge to watch her put it on. My libido had just burst out of the closet and was tripping over furniture yelling, "Who? What? Where?" (Please excuse him. He doesn't get out much)
B. Justin Shier
#91. She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.
Alice Hoffman
#92. I've always been more visual-based. I've kept my musical tendencies kind of in the closet.
Grant Evans
#93. Was this the second body I'd found in the closet, or the third? I wondered why I even opened closet doors any more.
Charlaine Harris
#94. Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
James Russell Lowell
#95. I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents.
Jason Ritter
#96. The monsters aren't always in the closet or under the bed. Sometimes they're right in front of you, only everyone thinks they're the good guys.
Barbara Freethy
#97. Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
Karen Thompson Walker
#98. Florida is an awesome place to find sweaters. People buy a really nice sweater for their trips up north, then they just keep it in the closet forever, so you're finding super nice sweaters down here at the Salvation Army. It's hard to say no sometimes.
Jim Drain
#99. I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
Edmund White
#100. A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
Marisa Tomei
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