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  • Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

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

    Hate   House   Bigs  
    "Martha Stewart Geeks Out For Wired's Annual How To Guide". Interview with Mark Frauenfelder, www.wired.com. July 24, 2007.
  • The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

  • Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I certainly don't. The dark stretches, the blanks, are much bigger than the bright glimpses. I seem to have spent most of my time like a plant in a cupboard.

    Katherine Mansfield (2016). “KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...”, p.566, e-artnow
  • It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.

    Silly   Self   Dolls  
    John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co
  • 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.

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

  • Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in different sizes. That some were so big they were like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. You could spend your whole life in them, wandering through dark shelving.

    Dark   Punishment   Size  
    Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.115, Penguin Books India
  • What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

    Heart   Lavender   Favour  
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illus”, p.339
  • 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.

    Yards   Castles   Littles  
    Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”
  • 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.

  • Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or certain patterns of form or sound; for others, certain stories or places, Philip Levine's Detroit, Gwendolyn Brooks's Chicago, Seamus Heaney's time-tunneled, familied Ireland.

    Art   Car   Sound  
    "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.
  • She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .

    Dark   Thinking   Air  
  • 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.

    Land   Bed   Cracks  
    Another Time (1940) "As I Walked Out One Evening"
  • But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

    Wall   Broken   Promise  
    Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.206, Open Road Media
  • 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 (1995). “The economy of nature: rethinking the connections between ecology and economics”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
  • My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

    Writing   Firsts   Hungry  
    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
  • If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

  • 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.

    Past   World   Flesh  
    "Citizen: An American Lyric". Book by Claudia Rankine, July 2, 2015.
  • In mine, they were just trying to steal a briefcase of cocaine.* That's it. Some flour that I got out of my mom's cupboard.

    Mom   Trying   Stealing  
    Source: collider.com
  • When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

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

    Nice   Cozy   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.

    Magic   Saws   Cups  
    "Merlin actor Colin Morgan is magic". www.mirror.co.uk. September 03, 2008.
  • 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.

    Children   Real   Ideas  
  • 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.

    Mean   Editors   Office  
  • 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.

    Hurt   Mad   Water  
    Jack Kerouac (2011). “The Dharma Bums”, p.254, Penguin UK
  • 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 (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.18
  • 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.

    Trust   Paper   Littles  
    "The Times Book of Quotations". Book by HarperCollins, 2000.
  • Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

    Doors   Hands   Rooms  
    Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.55, Knopf
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