Top 1200 Coming Out Of The Closet Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Of course, right away I got more interested in the far-out jazz than the traditional jazz, so I quickly was turned onto the John Zorn scene and all the wild stuff coming out of New York and Europe. Improvising is a pretty natural thing for me.

Isaiah Joe is not too complicated. He's just one of these elite shooters coming out of college.

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population.

My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.

I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.

With James Brown, I just learn the lyrics and then get out there and get funky with it and let my spirit free. But doing Charles Bradley, it's a lot of true, intimate words coming out of me that show me the picture inside myself.

I slag off people I see coming out of the gym with a can of Red Bull or a Lucozade!

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

The girls grew up playing in my closet - trying on my shoes, etc. Now the tables have turned.

I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

It was only when I got to 21 that my personality started coming out a little bit more.

It's not good for you to be barred from traveling to certain places in your head because some skeleton is in the closet.

If you love Black people, why are you destroying Haiti? If you love Black people, why did you, [Hillary] Clinton, stop them from the rice that they were producing in Haiti to feed themselves and other Caribbean nations? You put the rice industry out of business; and now rice is coming from Arkansas, chicken coming from Arkansas, when it once was growing right there in Haiti.

Like every actor I too have some 'classics' in the closet, but I am not keen on adding to that collection.

Coming out as a rookie, no. 4 draft pick, you expected to see some playing time.

That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years -- in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.

Because our society is so polarized between homosexuals and heterosexuals, the bisexual closet has two doors.

I have no hoarding tendencies whatsoever. I'm a purger. I am constantly throwing things out. Like everyone, I have a scary junk drawer or corner of the closet. And those little dark corners weigh on me enough to know how hard it must be to be a hoarder. And I also think that's why these hoarding shows are so popular, because it taps into something we all feel in ourselves. We hold onto things we don't need.

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.

I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.

What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.

I can't figure out why fans keep coming, maybe it's because they dig the songs.

I feel like I'm on the precipice - just seeing a better version of me coming out.

If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.

Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.

Coming out of my first yoga class, I was astonished that there were nothing but hot girls there. Just 55 girls, Bobby Shriver, who's a buddy of mine, and myself. I came out of class, I was so high. I been sober 26 years, but I'm an ex-druggie.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.

We have plenty of young women coming into biology and medicine, but we don't have enough coming into physics and engineering. It's a really weird thing because, of course, all these subjects are completely neutral.

When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'

As a kid, it was always my dream to open a closet and end up fighting dragons or battling aliens.

People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way from the studio level, and they're financed and they have movie stars attached and all of that. But a lot of times, the storytelling just doesn't speak to me. It feels like it's still oftentimes coming out of a kind of prescribed notion of normalcy, prescribed notion of gender roles. There's not a lot of "new" seeming to be happening.

Motherhood takes vanity completely out of the picture. Comfort is the key. When you are coming out of a plane after a 9-hour flight with drool all over your clothes, the last thing you are worried about is being photographed. You just want to take your kid home.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

I have never engineered a record. I will draw a record and I'll show you what it's gonna look like. And I will design it and sketch it out and show you, you know, the breaks are coming in here. Sixteen bars. Move out. 32 bars and you get this baseline. Repeat this. Ghost it. Take the tops out of that. Make it go thin. Get a filter. Reverse it.

For me, it's a multitude of things. In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming, but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear. It's like a fear of claustrophobia, heights or water.

Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.

Absolutely, I think coming out has allowed me to align who I am with with my creative self.

I take good pride in the way I release off the line and coming out of my breaks.

Coming out of a group, it's always really fun and creative to do your own thing.

For any performer who's coming up, if they really want to test their psychology and how they handle themselves on stage, then coming to the U.K. as a whole is a wonderful place for that.

Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.

'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

Not many skeletons left in my closet because I invite them to dance all over the front room!

I spent 24 years in the closet wanting to talk so desperately about who I was and what I am but too afraid to.

I'm deeply grateful to live and work in this country and to the United States for opening its arms to me the way it has. I mean I think my attitude as an Aussie coming here - I've been coming here for a while now, I've been coming here for about 12 or 13 years - is that this country has afforded me and my family work and security. For that, I'm forever grateful.

We men are very simple people: if we like what we see, we’re coming over there. If we don’t want anything from you, we’re not coming over there. Period. Please highlight this part right here so you can always remind yourself the next time a man steps to you: a man always wants something. Always. And when it comes to women, that plan is always to find out two things: (1) if you’re willing to sleep with him, and (2) if you are, how much it will cost to get you to sleep with him.

Madonna, eat your heart out. Britney Spears, eat your heart out. I would say we have diamond records coming - they're gonna sell 10 million-plus.

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

Coming out of college, I got a lot of notoriety for being the old-school center.

I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge. Oh yes, I can hear you. But I'm not coming out.

When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.

As someone who was once in the closet, I can tell you it is the most sad, dark, awful, depressing place to ever be.