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I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet. — Sandra Cisneros

I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet. — Drew Carey

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken. — Betty Ford

In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age. — Jack Kerouac

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet. — George Bernard Shaw

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet. — Chita Rivera

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses. — Benjamin Disraeli

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court. — Cecile Richards

You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions. — Menachem Begin

I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities. — Charlotte Bronte

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet. — Richard M. Nixon

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case. — William Hague

The weasel under the cocktail cabinet. — Harold Pinter

I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration. — Scott McCallum

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud. — Andrew Greeley

That Vanishing Cabinet was extremely valuable! — J.K. Rowling

A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems — William Buell Sprague

The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose. — Alex Turner

Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet. — John A. Macdonald

I know I would have had a lot more trophies in my cabinet if I went with him [Sir Alex Ferguson]. — Paul Gascoigne

You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote! — Rachel Vincent

Washington. In Monroe's Cabinet, Secretary of — Jon Meacham

I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school? — Richelle Mead

The jewel of faith is always put in the cabinet of a good conscience. — Thomas Watson

When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. — David Mitchell

I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much. — Tiffany Reisz

People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

There was less private-sector business experience in Obama's cabinet than in any administration going back a century.30 — Mark Steyn

You would sail the kitchen cabinet into the night and anchor the wood to the seafloor. You would drown with the diamond, not float with the ring. — Matt Petronzio

The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give. — Charles De Gaulle

What would it be like to pick and choose the objects and stories that would go into your own cabinet? — Brian Selznick

I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing. — Robert Mangold

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy. — Louise Mensch

If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet. — Ian Macfarlane

First things first, though, I thought, and headed straight for the liquor cabinet. Times like this call for straight scotch, no rocks. — Susan Toy

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it. — Daniel Day-Lewis

A prime minister can chose his friends and his Cabinet but not his relatives. Part Chairman Lord Williams — Michael Dobbs

Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet. — Edward Bernays

I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either. — Cheech Marin

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President. — Nelson Mandela

Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member. — Earl Butz

I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not. — Sara Zarr

I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them. — John Diefenbaker

I have no interest or desire to be head of Fine Gael ... I am ambitious for my country and I always said I would love to sit at Cabinet ... — Lucinda Creighton

...she imagines his head as a cabinet filled with ten thousand little drawers. — Anthony Doerr

During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary. — Shinzo Abe

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. — Ronald Reagan

...That Great Cocktail Cabinet in the Sky... — Nigella Lawson

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister. — Brian Mulroney

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister. — Joyce Cary

The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy. — Elliott Abrams

If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet. — Michael Heseltine

Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator. — Nancy Astor

Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. — Elliott Abrams

Open shelving may be fashionable, but a closed cabinet door is the best way to stop grease and dust collecting in the first place. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet. — George Balanchine

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it. — Newt Gingrich

There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged. — William Manchester

Physically, Echo Spring is nothing more than a nickname for a liquor cabinet, drawn from the brand of bourbon it contains. — Olivia Laing

Home was a condominium on the fifteenth floor of a high-rise, a sort of filing cabinet for widows and young professionals. — Chuck Palahniuk

I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility. — Alex Sink

I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns. — Heinrich Boll

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires. — Banksy

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal. — Jim Rohn

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right. — Fay Wray

So I stuck that in the back of my mental filing cabinet too, under the drawer labeled: Unthinkable. — Jojo Moyes

Oh the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them? — Warrior Doctor

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers. — Honore De Balzac

I can hardly wait until Donald Trump announces his celebrity cabinet. — David Letterman

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week. — Moshe Dayan

She left behind her giant M, she's not getting my cabinet
-Toby — Jaclyn Moriarty

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet. — George William Norris

Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC. — Joe Biden

Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude. — Thomas Paine

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world. — Nicola Sturgeon

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. — Marc Bloch

When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet. — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction. — Donald Rumsfeld

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in. — Aneurin Bevan

I thought about checking for a pulse, but decided that could wait. I kicked the knife so it slid under the heavy cabinet — Katie Alender

I have never commented on a caucus issue or a shadow Cabinet issue, and I'm not about to start now. — David Cunliffe

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself. — Henry David Thoreau

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate. — Roz Chast

My heart, as I closed the cabinet and rose to my feet, was a small dead creature. If I could bury it in the woods, I would. — Lauren Myracle

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself. — H. H. Asquith

Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes. — Dave Barry

That can go in the cabinet, and so can this One Ring. No, don't put it on, you fool! It's dangerous! — Diana Wynne Jones

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. — Akhenaton

Alone and rejected, Mummy Boy wept,
then went to the cabinet
where the snack food was kept. — Tim Burton

I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play. — Sylvia Plath

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important. — Daisy Berkowitz

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. — Anthony J. D'Angelo

Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery". — John Gay

Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet. — Charles Krauthammer

All members of a Cabinet are referred to as Right. Honorable Gentlemen. There are only three things wrong with such a title ... — Michael Dobbs