Cupboards Quotes
71 quotes by 67 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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Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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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All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases,…
— Sigmund Freud
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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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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…
— Maria Montessori
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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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The population at large is neither 'ordinary' or 'normal'. They seem to be bound together by a collective ignorance of themselves and what they are.…
— Dennis Nilsen
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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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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…
— Gerhard Richter
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My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
— Jan Karon
Who Wrote These Cupboards Quotes
67 authors contributed a total of 71 Cupboards Quotes, led by these top contributors: