#closed

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. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#any #attacks #business #closed #i

They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor. ↗

— John William McCormack

#anything #closed #corporation #find #floor

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking! ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#business #cafe #closed #cooking #day

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice. ↗

— Robert Plant

#closed #eyes #having #i #long

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#i #last #philadelphia #week #went

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. ↗

— Lord Byron

#allow #any #before #bit #body

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. ↗

— Mark Twain

#closed #doubt #fool #keep #mouth

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#door #library #me #more #nothing

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #bible #came #closed #eyes

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#case #closed #drew #figures #i