I heard the tinkle of the welcome bells above the…

“Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago.”

— Roberto Bolaño

Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-eat, and you think because nobody sees you eating, then…

— Al Roker

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its…

— Tom Waits

My life closed twice before its close

— Emily Dickinson

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

— Patrick White

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had…

— Neon Hitch

“Bedtime stories Eventide Rhapsodies Anthologies of Memory Please enter cautiously and feel free to open what is closed”

— Erin Morgenstern

You were the oníly one I saw when I closed my eyes..

— Jhiess Krieg

Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.

— Maximillian Degenerez

“I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use…

— Marisha Pessl

“I hope you are not here to ask me to do my bawdy business- the monkey has a nosebleed and the circus, sir, is…

— Christopher Moore

I'm tired of seeing listings of programs I want to watch that aren't closed captioned. And I'm tired of looking for the symbol on…

— Marlee Matlin

Closed some doors, not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.

— Frenz Jeffrey

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

— Sarah Vowell

Nothing attracts me like a closed door.

— Margaret Bourke-White