Better Shut Your Mouth Quotes

#1. He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth ...

Charlaine Harris

#2. In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work.

John Davidson

#3. It's cruel what I love most about Dylan is the very reason why I can't have her.

Katie Kacvinsky

#4. I won't regret saying this, this thing that I'm saying. Is it better than keeping my mouth shut? That goes without saying. Call, break it off call, break my own heart.

Tegan Quin

#5. Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

John Muir

#6. A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#7. When it comes to the thing you love to do, the thing you were made to do, aim high. The odds matter little. Whether you fall down along the way matters little.

John C. Maxwell

#8. All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

Mary Roach

#9. While living I want to live well.

Geronimo

#10. it's better to keep my mouth shut and look stupid than open it and prove it.

Rich Amooi

#11. The rebel in him flared to life like an old, familiar friend.

J.M. Stewart

#12. You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

Andy Rooney

#13. It's better to keep one's mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubts.

Diana Palmer

#14. I am the little man who smokes & smokes.
I am the girl who does know better but.
I am the king of the pool.
I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

John Berryman

#15. ...one never knows what interesting fact will turn up when researching a book!

Ellen Prager

#16. Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

Tobias Wolff

#17. I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher.

Mark Martin

#18. Human intelligence is a function of man's evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely human.

Colin Wilson

#19. Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Salman Rushdie

#20. You're just lucky you got your bag back," said Cruz gravely.
Megan snorted," Cruz is more impressed with Gucci than he is with a supernatural being! "
"Honey," Cruz snapped, "Gucci is supernatural!

Derrolyn Anderson

#21. You better ignore this.
You better staple your eyes shut
and put pot-lids over your ears
and pinch your nose with vice grips
and cement your mouth shut
with real cement and while
you're at it or in it or whatever
cut off your hands for good measure

B.J. Ward

#22. As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.

Prince Philip

#23. Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate
how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#24. When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

Wallace Shawn

#25. There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.

Agatha Christie

#26. As any parent can tell you, it's better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They're probably doing something they don't want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they'll hide the evidence. I

Elizabeth Bear