Top 313 Closed Quotes

I had no connections, and the fashion world was a closed elite. So my mother made appointments for herself with three top Parisian makeup artists and spoke highly about me… she was my first publicist!

I assure, the door to politics is never closed. Whatever medium is necessary to reach the masses, I will take that – be it cinema or politics.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.

The door can never be closed for good to any player.

Years ago – I used to be an actor – I was in a production of Vaclav Havel’s ‘Temptation,’ and when we started rehearsals, he was in prison. When we closed the show, he was running for president. And it felt incredibly timely and important and also this lucky thing.

If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don’t quite know what problems are worth working on.

Our culture has valued closed systems and tries to generate them in all walks of life. Women are better at and more comfortable with open systems, which occur naturally in nature.

From what I hear, dogfighting is a sport. It’s just behind closed doors.

If you’re hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You’ll get the same kind of feeling and you won’t have to pay.

Closed Circuit’ came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance.

I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It’s a classic isn’t it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that’s how I release it, through music.

No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn’t get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn’t. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

You gotta bear in mind, the youth – and this is just in Britain alone – have nowhere to go in the evenings. They’ve closed all the social centers. There’s not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.

I found New York too… ‘vertical,’ closed off, I didn’t feel the muse like I did in L.A. Maybe it’s the weather?

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

I went to the Heidelburg Castle, a 1200-year-old castle, looked around. It was pretty awesome, but you know, they’ve got a coffee shop in there, and they have some sections closed off. I wanted to see the part where they tortured people, but it was cool, though.

Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn’t a sophisticated task for a person, but it’s hard for a robot.

Public displays of puritanical religiosity mask the private perversions of the real Washington behind closed doors.

The women’s movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we’d break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we’d walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.

Meditation doesn’t have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

I just feel my sexuality is private. I’m very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I’ve sold millions of records with my clothes on.

It’s better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.

Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine’s Day behind closed doors. Apparently, this has led to a huge black market for flowers and wrapping paper.

When it comes to art and science, people don’t like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they’re closed off about it.

Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers.

God has always opened up doors at the right time. He’s closed doors at the right time.

I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?

A closed mouth catches no flies.

In 1971, the U.S. ‘closed the gold window,’ starting an era of global fiat money reference-pricing that has been unprecedented in history. Never before had the world operated on the basis of no country anywhere having a currency tied to something with intrinsic value like gold.

In the public mind, when they think of politicians, sadly they probably tend to think of men in grey suits doing work behind closed doors at Westminster. I want to get away from the idea.

Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it’s quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions.

I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed… I was the guy… telling them to ‘get the hell out and have a magical day.’

I am not closed to any new ideas. But films are my first love.

I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now.

If one door is closed, break a window anyway.

I like to get up around 5:30 or six – that’s my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

I’ve been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that’s it – the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.

Father John Misty is rebelling not against repression or foolishness but the ephemeral nature of mankind. He seeks permanence in a fleeting age, and he does not find it because the one place he could find an answer, he considers closed off: a locked door.

Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?

I’ve never liked feeling closed in.

If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that’s death. That’s instant death.

My dad constantly tells me I should calm down, but I feel so sad when I see places I’ve known since I was a child closing. I burst out crying when a local pharmacy closed the other day; it’s just going to become a shop that nobody has much of a need for. But I am trying to move with the times.

When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won’t fight now unless I’m put upon.

People want people to do well. You can get focused on the bitter side of it, like, ‘Everybody wants you to fail. Everybody’s keeping the door closed to you,’ but that’s not true at all. Everybody’s kind of in the same boat.

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle’s, on the dining table.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

I’m a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn’t be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I’m from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid. Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward.

I do know I’ve lived through a bunch of things that people would maybe prefer I keep behind closed doors.

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.