The Celluloid Closet Quotes & Sayings

Why do you care so much?"


"Why are you still hiding from me? — Lexi Ryan

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. — Edmund Burke

No one has actually gone further than The Sex Pistols, I don't think, in that cultural music arena. They still challenge people. — Julien Temple

These forms of criticism that make black women the privileged readers of a black woman writer go against Hurston's own grain. She saw things otherwise: "When I set my hat at a certain angle and saunter down Seventh Avenue. . . . the cosmic Zora emerges. . . . How can anybody deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me!" This is exactly right. No one should deny themselves the pleasure of Zora - of whatever color or background or gender. — Zadie Smith

Live as if you are in a land of wonder and joy. — Debasish Mridha

A dreaming vortex is a place where it's easy to change. You come to a dreaming vortex like Hawaii to step from one dream into another, from one world into another, to change, in other words. — Frederick Lenz

Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved. — Robert Fulghum

Nothing is certain by uncertainty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton