Cupboard Quotes
68 quotes by 64 authors
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I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
— Rowan Atkinson
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There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the…
— Jo Brand
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...the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when…
— Lynn G. Robbins
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The thing to do,' I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, 'is to get absolutely everything in the…
— Miss Read
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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…
— Arthur Keith
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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
— Penelope Lively
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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…
— Tom Stoppard
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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
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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…
— Thomas S. Monson
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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…
— Colin Morgan
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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…
— Claudia Rankine
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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…
— Barbara Mertz
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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
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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…
— Maggie Q
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The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.
— Geoffrey Madan
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the…
— Carl Bernstein
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If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.
— Susie Orbach
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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…
— Simon Callow
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On investments, 1998: 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,…
— Garrison Keillor
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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…
— William Arthur Ward
Who Wrote These Cupboard Quotes
64 authors contributed a total of 68 Cupboard Quotes, led by these top contributors: