Cupboards Quotes:

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

- Caitlin Moran

topic: Cupboards, Small Talk

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

- Gertrude Bell

topic: Cupboards

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

- Jerry Bridges

topic: Prayer, Would Be, Cupboards, Supplication

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

- Susie Orbach

topic: Wrinkles, Hiding, Cupboards

Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Mind, Cupboards, Shelves

Life can be considered as a huge wardrobe, with so many dominos hung in its cupboards, one domino per year. Now I don't see why I couldn't change my mask in this wardrobe even twice a day.

- Domenico Gnoli

source: Source: observer.com

topic: Years, Mask, Cupboards

All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush.....Him I could do without.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Fun, Teeth, Cupboards, Good Fun

I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.

- Katie Price

topic: Noses, Cupboards, If I Could

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

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Nice, Cozy, Cupboards, Brooms

He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Might, Cupboards, Sirius, Hopes Up

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

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Chips, Cupboards, Tendencies

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

topic: Home, Personality, Stairs, Cupboards, My Own Personality

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

- Penelope Lively

topic: Photography, Past, Bombs, Cupboards, Time Bomb

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

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Memories, Heart, Mind, Cupboards, Leftovers

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Cupboards, Peace Love

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

topic: Responsibility, Blood, Hands, Cupboards

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

topic: Crazy, Character, Giving, Cupboards, Forethought

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

topic: Cupboards, Stationery, Local Government

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

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

topic: Country, Fall, Civilization, Cupboards

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

topic: Encouragement, Kindness, Criticism, Cupboards

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

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Dancing, Faces, Needs, Cupboards

Some things come with their own punishments.

- Arundhati Roy

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

topic: Punishment, Cupboards

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

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

topic: Land, Bed, Cracks, Cupboards, Glaciers

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

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

topic: Funny, Humorous, Medicine, Cupboards, Nastiness

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

topic: Fall, Writing, Poetry, Cupboards, Pots And Pans

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

topic: Memories, Years, Soul, Cupboards, Thrifty

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

- Martha Stewart

topic: Hate, House, Bigs, Cupboards, Old Houses

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

- Sylvia Plath

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

topic: Light, Numbness, Emptiness, Cupboards

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

topic: Heart, Favour, Lavender, Cupboards, Bridal

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

topic: Fall, Thinking, Elephants, Cupboards, Ambush

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

topic: Children, Real, Ideas, Cupboards

Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

- Garrison Keillor

source: "The Times Book of Quotations". Book by HarperCollins, 2000.

topic: Trust, Paper, Littles, Cupboards, Premises

I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.

- Maggie Grace

topic: Wine, Tea, Littles, Cupboards, Flavour

In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

- Carl Bernstein

topic: Views, Issues, Doctrine, Cupboards, John Paul Ii

The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

- Geoffrey Madan

topic: Cat, Skeletons, Bags, Cupboards

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

- Jan Karon

source: Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.72, Penguin

topic: Writing, Firsts, Hungry, Cupboards

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

- William Ralph Inge

source: William Ralph Inge (2015). “The Victorian Age”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

topic: Parent, Special, Pedestal, Cupboards

You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

- Claudia Rankine

source: "Citizen: An American Lyric". Book by Claudia Rankine, July 2, 2015.

topic: Past, World, Flesh, Cupboards

If I ever saw magic on television I would say: 'I want that. That's what I want from Santa Claus'. So the cupboard in my bedroom was full of boxes of magic tricks, cups and balls, cards and foam rabbits, all sorts of stuff.

- Colin Morgan

source: "Merlin actor Colin Morgan is magic". www.mirror.co.uk. September 03, 2008.

topic: Magic, Balls, Cards, Cupboards, Magic Tricks

I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well be stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Kindness, Prayer, Father, Cupboards, Faith Prayers

I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

- Maggie Q

topic: Dog, Strong, Moving, Cupboards

Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.

- Herta Muller

topic: Sight, People, Everyday, Cupboards

Sirius looked slightly disconcerted for a moment, then said, "I'll look for him later, I expect I'll find him upstairs crying his eyes out over my mother's old bloomers or something... Of course, he might have crawled into the airing cupboard and died... But I mustn't get my hopes up.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Mother, Eye, Looks, Cupboards, Hopes Up

Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard." "I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But that's the way we like it. Just because we're editors doesn't mean we need special privileges. We're not snobs.

- Sarah Rees Brennan

topic: Mean, Editors, Office, Cupboards

Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I’d be so mad I’d want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

- Jack Kerouac

source: Jack Kerouac (2011). “The Dharma Bums”, p.254, Penguin UK

topic: Hurt, Mad, Water, Cupboards, Flapjacks

Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

- Bob Brown

source: Bob Brown (2012). “Memo For A Saner World”, p.17, Penguin UK

topic: Real, Future, Gun, Cupboards

Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.

- Gerhard Richter

topic: Art, Motivation, Thinking, Cupboards, Building Things

If there's something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn't want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.

- Jenna Ushkowitz

topic: Snacks, Kitchen, Trying, Cupboards

After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.

- Diana Wynne Jones

source: Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

topic: Yards, Castles, Littles, Cupboards, Howl's Moving Castle

'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

- Florence Welch

topic: Dog, Wall, Play, Cupboards, Dog Days

Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource?

- William Ashworth

topic: Basketball, Rivers, Lakes, Cupboards, Fresh Water

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

- Marina Abramovic

topic: Mother, Book, Long, Cupboards, Big Book

The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.

- Colin Angle

topic: People, Vacuums, Robots, Cupboards