Top 313 Closed Quotes

When I beat GSP it’s not like I was getting my butt handed to me and I just closed my eyes and landed a punch.
Matt Serra
A film can open hearts and minds that have been closed, for whatever reasons.
Vanessa Redgrave
One man’s observation is another man’s closed book or flight of fancy.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.
Joe Murray
I grew up in Mill Hill. All potteries, mining. Then once Maggie Thatcher closed the pits down, it became a bit depressed.
Phil Taylor
High-end divorce is a closed world. When I tried to research it, I was really surprised about how little there is out there. I think that’s because of the nature of the subject matter – privacy is incredibly important to this level of client.
Nicola Walker
It’s impossible to know what everyone does behind closed doors. Even in families, you don’t know sometimes what’s going on.
Bob Stoops
A lot of females, they want to do the things that I do. Some females are so closed, but they want to be open. Some girls, they want to feel that power that I tell them that I have. I tell women that I have power over these men, that I use these men.
Cardi B
I’m not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to… you start to lose your memory. You start to lose your confidence. You start to lose your invention. So, that’s pretty much a closed book for me.
Paul Newman
I would say that’s at the center of masculinity in the 21st century: How do you become comfortable enough that you can feel stronger by opening up to another human being, rather than the instinct, which is, the more closed off you are, the stronger you are because you’re not vulnerable?
Rege-Jean Page
A fantastic actor in a scene that’s just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks – correct music, slowly pushing in – that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I’ve always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.
Matthew Gray Gubler
Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with ‘anti-answers’ such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred.
Winnie Byanyima
I don’t like closed systems.
Jon Johansen
Everyone is battling something emotional behind closed doors – that’s life.
Caroline Flack
Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10 as the first apparent step towards locking down the consumer PC ecosystem and monopolising app distribution and commerce.
Tim Sweeney
I feel relief after the transfer window is closed. I got tired of reading and listening every day about me leaving or staying at Liverpool. Everyone wrote ‘Dejan is here, Dejan is there,’ and they knew nothing!
Dejan Lovren
I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.
Anne Enright
As a historian, I’m sceptical about conspiracy theories because the world is far too complicated to be managed by a few billionaires drinking scotch behind some closed doors. But I do think that the voters are correct in sensing that they’re really losing power. And in reaction, they give the system an angry kick.
Yuval Noah Harari
I can still deliver behind closed doors, we just need to get a recording of the fans singing and shouting in the arena so I can hear them chanting.
Dereck Chisora
I was a shy little girl. Growing up, I was often content being alone in my room, making up stories, and acting out all the parts. I became so good at it that, with the door closed, my parents thought I had friends over.
Susan Lucci
Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors – that there is racism in baseball.
Frank Robinson
The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn’t thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
Bobby Flay
There’s the idea that gaming is a closed door and that men are holding access to who gets in or out, and you have to prove – if you’re female – that you’re a real gamer. I think the younger generation, they don’t care.
Ashly Burch
In relationships, I'm usually the one who's like, 'Oh,

In relationships, I’m usually the one who’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t need this right now. I don’t need commitment. I can do well on my own. I’m independent,’ and all this stuff, and I realized recently that that was making me really closed off to relationships and just closed off to anyone no matter who they were.
Daya
Overall, ‘Singularity’ has a certain lightness to it compared to ‘Immunity.’ It’s less closed off; it doesn’t have that claustrophobic sound.
Jon Hopkins
The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark – without charging anyone with a crime.
Bill Dedman
I really value what Closed Sessions is doing to build the Chicago music scene and am excited to partner with them for my first solo project.
Jamila Woods
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
Paul Prudhomme
I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it’s perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.
David Miliband
You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‘Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.
Joel Osteen
It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you’ve never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.
Krystal Ball
I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year later, the deal was done with Yahoo, and we closed it in March of 2005. It was really independent for a relatively short period of time.
Stewart Butterfield
People still come up to me and say, ‘Hey, ‘Teen Wolf!’ ‘Teen Wolf Too’ closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?
Jason Bateman
One fine day, I realised that advertising was not my calling. I closed shop and plunged into theatre.
Kay Kay Menon
Since I had the baby I can’t tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn’t need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.
Lisa Kudrow
Once I close the doors, it’s closed. I don’t open it back up. That’s kind of me as a human being. That’s just one of the things about me… But yeah, for me, I don’t close anything until I’m officially done.
Chris Bosh
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries – first Europe and then the U.S. – has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.
Martin Jacques
That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.
Luis Fonsi
I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.
Sebastian Horsley
Night is the best time to visit sewers, because the businesses dispelling the most waste are closed, and the flows are calmer.
Rose George
I have an agreement with the dental office I work for that we’ll be closed on Wednesdays.
Britt Baker
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
Joyce Maynard
I didn’t go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.
Neon Hitch
What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.
Ellen Ullman
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in a way that the traditional model of journalism and its closed, insular, one-way form of communication could never do.
Glenn Greenwald
See what I do is I book a studio that’s closed down and I go by myself. No one’s in there, literally just me and the engineer.
Lil Durk
I’ve been looking forward to doing an album, but it’s really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.
Jai Rodriguez
We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society – satellites, social media, the Internet – you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.
Ali Babacan
I learned to hide aspects of my personality. Playing with girls was fine, for example, but playing with their Barbies was something I could do only behind closed doors.
Janet Mock
Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
Lynn Swann
My father never played with me. I can remember my father picking me up – once. I can remember my father telling me behind a closed door that he loved me – once.
Chris Eubank Sr.