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Quotes About Cupboard

I try to stick to the natural peanut butter, and I have several jars in the cupboard. I'll put it on oatmeal, rice cakes, chocolate... I just love it.
~ Darby Stanchfield
Right up until the end, Victor's mind had been as methodical as an efficient library, whereas Amelia felt that hers was more like the cupboard under the stair where ancient hockey sticks were shoved in beside broken Hoovers and boxes of old Christmas decorations, and the one thing you knew was in there—a five-amp fuse, a tin of tan shoe polish, a Phillips screwdriver—would almost certainly be the one thing you couldn't lay your hands on.
~ Kate Atkinson
A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.
~ Sally Phillips
Wolfe shook his head. "No. Only that afternoon. If we had to argue that it is not credible that it was left in the cupboard for an extended period, just for anyone to use, but we don't have to. The bottle in that cupboard contained good iodine at four o'clock that afternoon." Cramer growled. Daniel demanded, "How do you know that?" "Because it was used at that hour. By Archie. He tripped on an alligator and scratched his hand.
~ Rex Stout
He had his standards. He had trained at the Ritz before losing his post there due to an unfortunate incident involving two chambermaids and a linen cupboard. You can imagine the rest, he said to Nellie when he applied for the job at the Amethyst. I'd rather not, she said.
~ Kate Atkinson
It is possible to do many household cleaning tasks by simply using ingredients from the store cupboard, which are also safer for the environment.
~ Sheherazade Goldsmith
My mum has a cupboard in her house, and you have to fight an avalanche of tea whenever you open it. I go through eight teas a day because I like having something in my hands when I'm working, and it stops me going for the cookie jar.
~ Samara Weaving
I am married,' she shouted, 'to the cupboard under the sink.' A remark made more mysterious to Mrs Barnes by the sound of a passing ice-cream van playing the opening bars of the 'Blue Danube'.
~ Alan Bennett
Once she was safely in the Unstable Potions and Partikular Poisons cupboard,
~ Angie Sage
When you can't get out to buy specific ingredients, whipping up your own curry paste or harissa paste is super satisfying, using all those powdered spices that often sit at the back of the cupboard.
~ Vick Hope
If children are given some real content, they can feel powerful with their own understanding of it. I think a movie like 'Indian in the Cupboard' will instruct them how to proceed as people. They can think about whether they would have done something the way a character did, how they would have felt about an event in the story.
~ Melissa Mathison
Harper took a can of Spam out of her carpetbag and hunted in the cupboard for something to spread it on.
~ Joe Hill
Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.
~ Bob Brown
Your broad sky, Giant, Is the shelf of a cupboard. I make bean-stalks—I'm A builder like yourself; But bean-stalks is my trade— I couldn't make a shelf
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Old mother HubbardWent to the cupboard,To fetch her poor dog a bone;But when she came thereThe cupboard was bare,And so the poor dog had none.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
My grandmother had a cupboard where she kept her collections and textile samples of all sorts of things. When I had good grades, I could take out one piece of work to look at.
~ Hubert de Givenchy
Inside was a small white metal cupboard with a mirror in the door, the kind you see over the basin in old-fashioned bathrooms.
~ Lynne Reid Banks
AMBRY  (A'MBRY)   n.s.[a word corrupted from almonry.]1. The place where the almoner lives, or where alms are distributed.2. The place where plate, and utensils for housekeeping, are kept; also a cupboard for keeping cold victuals:a word still used in the northern counties, and in Scotland.
~ Samuel Johnson
Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter.
~ Margaret Atwood
His abhorrence and fear of alcohol did not extend to his power as host. He kept a huge cupboard of drinks in the station house and loved to serve large measures to visiting relatives--especially those he disliked--about which there was a definite element of spreading bait for garden snails.
~ John McGahern
I need to have dark chocolate in the cupboard - Green & Black's is good, but any will do.
~ Darcey Bussell
Some people put Marmite on all sorts of dishes - I don't mind dropping a teaspoon into a pot of stew - but it's something I like to eat at home, on the sofa. I have to stick the jar right at the back of the cupboard or I'll eat six slices of toast in one go.
~ Monica Galetti
By this point I was eager to emulate Guleed and merge unobtrusively with the imitation French farmhouse fittet cupboard and counter unit behind me.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Wait until my wife sees this." He chortled. "She's said all along that we should just get rid of the darned cupboard doors. She even showed me a picture in one of her magazines, but I told her she was crazy. Just shows you how much I know." He
~ Mary Kay Andrews