Closets Quote by William James Download Open image “Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Closets Development Doors Fashion Personality Serious Style
I think that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that's above everything else. I think that applies whether you're… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“ The closet implies a literal, physical boundary dividing one’s life before publicly declaring queerness, and after. It’s a threshold impossible to recross, two… — Grace Perry Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake, hiding one's true self away in a closet and creating a facade of heterosexuality is not without its consequences; one being… — Anthony Venn-Brown Copy Share Image
When people come out, they're coming out of the closet because they're afraid. They fear that they're going to have a negative impact on… — Carl Nassib Copy Share Image
“And thinking about this, which I have done so much, I discover that I come around, by a back door, to another of the things that obsess me. I mean, of course, this question of ‘personality’. Heaven knows we are never allowed to forget that the ‘personality’ doesn’t exist any more. It’s the theme of half the novels written, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The one undeniable benefit of having spent some time in the closet is that it nurtures a talent that you can fall back on… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as… — William James Copy Share
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and belief, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it… — William James Copy Share
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and the waves sparkling and the sea-gulls circling around Fort Wagner's ancient site. But the great earthworks and their thundering cannon, the commanders and their followers, the wild assault and repulse that for a brief space made… — William James Copy Share
I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want… — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood in knee-high piles on the floor, books were crammed sideways and right side up in a narrow bookcase that rose higher than my head and leaned dangerously from the wall, books sat in stacks on… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share
I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been shut in a closet, and he's on the other side, and he doesn't have the key to unlock the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while. — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big! — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
All of my life, actually, I had a real strong relationship with God, but I was always in the closet about it. The only… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
