Famous Quotes & Sayings

When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.

We're just in dire need of room for special education. We're using all the space we can, including closets and showers.

Timothy Noah

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.

She kept it in her upstairs bedroom. It would hang in a closet by its tail.

Nina Garcia

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

Oprah Winfrey

Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Omar Khayyam

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Lauren Myracle

I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.

Lance Loud

Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.

Henrik Lundqvist

Just because they're going to the gym, a lot of guys wear old T-shirts that look like they've been lying in the closet for 15 years. My workout clothes have to work.

Henrik Lundqvist

For me, what takes up most of the space in my closet are suits. I wear a lot of suits and jackets. But I think every man needs a black suit at home. You can never go wrong in a black suit. But in terms of style, I think it's about being comfortable in what you wear.

Alex Steffen

There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.

Lynda Resnick

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.

Kourtney Kardashian

I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad's home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of our friends would play a buyer, and I would take her to my mom's closet and show her the new collection.

Kourtney Kardashian

I remember playing in my mom's closet with Kim as little girls - we had this game we played, I was Donna Karan, and she was my assistant, and I was really bossy.

But it's sort of like we've come out of the closet now.

John Breaux

Must be in a closet somewhere, on a shelf somewhere. I am really disappointed.

Rick Carlisle

I have been voting for this guy as an all-star for three years. I am no closet fan. I am an out-there fan. I love the way he plays, and he is a guy you really fear.

I don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about th

A. J. Cook

I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

James McGreevey

I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.

Gene Luen Yang

I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I've always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I've had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for 'The Shadow Hero.'

Billy Porter

I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.

Buzz Osborne

To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'

BD Wong

I realize it's a cliche, almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.

Alejandro Toledo

When we opened the closet to see grandmother's jewels, we found that everything had been stolen,

Tina Turner

Some of those dresses are works of art. I'd be happy to just have them in my closet and let somebody else wear them.

Ronnie Montrose

My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for me, I want instruments that I play. And if I don't play them, I don't' want to have them sitting in a closet collecting dust.

Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy?

We have people coming in that are reporting that they're having difficulties wondering if they need to go back into the closet and not feeling safe.

Those kinds of bathrooms are very challenging. In most cases, with one that is smaller than 5-by-7 (feet), you will have to make it bigger, by stealing space from an adjacent closet or hallway.

This one-level house used to be a duplex and had a hallway running down the middle of the house, so when former owners turned it back into a single-family home, they enclosed that hallway, giving me tons and tons of closet space.

Henry Van Dyke

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.