Top 100 Quotes About Shut
#1. My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.
Amy Adams
#3. I grabbed a beer out of the fridge and slammed it shut. I shouldn't have come. I should have waited outside for Jack, told him my family had leprosy, and sent him on his merry way. After I boinked him in my new car.
Robyn Peterman
#4. As children we learned our shadow
is a darkness we never totally shake
until we lie down, pull the shades,
draw the curtains, shut out the world,
and turn our own light out.
B.J. Ward
#5. When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
Willa Cather
#6. A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
Isaac Watts
#7. Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
T. Berry Brazelton
#8. I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.
Scott Ritter
#9. Instead, he let his gaze move slowly over Daniel's body. "I've got no reason to be jealous. But I would be if I were him." "Why?" "Because there isn't anything I don't want to do to you, Danny." Trey swung into the car and shut the door.
K.A. Mitchell
#10. Emilio, shut the fuck up!" Carhart shouted at him, turning entirely to give his friend an incredulous look. "What's wrong with you?"
Emilio shrugged innocently, raising his eyebrows high. "I don't know how to take instructions slash am a bad person?
Santino Hassell
#11. X + Y + Z
X is work.
Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
#12. The trees are so huge that they shut you up.
Anne Lamott
#13. I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut
Jack Kerouac
#14. Misery tells me to shut my mouth or he'll shut it for me with something so big, I'll never be able to talk again. I hope it's a big slice of pizza.
Sarah Castille
#15. My other hand moves up to the ruby heart. Closing my fingers around it, I shut my es and return to Neverland. Even if only in a dream
Anna Katmore
#16. Well. Like I said, I dont want to fight anymore. I dont want us to hate each other. And ... well ... I squeezed my eyes shut and then opened them. No matter how I fee about us ... I want you to be happy
Richelle Mead
#17. Jake became excruciatingly aware of her, there, right behind him. The small grunts and groans as she placed each foot carefully on the slick ground reverberated in his gut. He wanted to turn around and tell her to shut the hell up.
She sounded as though she was having sex.
Good sex.
Cherry Adair
#18. You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!
Edith Wharton
#19. I wanted to freeze this moment forever, the chimes, the slight splash of water, the chink of dogs' leashes, laughter from the pool, the skritch of my mother's dip-pen, the smell of the tree, the stillness. I wished I could shut it in a locket to wear around my neck. I
Janet Fitch
#21. I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.
Patti LaBelle
#22. That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
Michel De Montaigne
#24. I tried to turn my mind off. Shut down the thoughts that were with me every second. Everything in me ached to be with him. It was worse than an obsession. It was a need.
Dan Skinner
#25. I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.
Cilla Black
#26. I felt absolutely nothing. It was like a door quickly opened, showing me what horrible feelings I had inside, and then slammed shut again so I wouldn't have to actually face them.
Augusten Burroughs
#27. It is very foolish to shut oneself into any wardrobe.
C.S. Lewis
#28. Beppu (n.)
The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.
Douglas Adams
#29. The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing's profit-making machine,
Kshama Sawant
#30. Nick jabbed him in the arm with his fork. "What's up with you? Usually you don't shut up about my crap cooking."
"Maybe I don't want to hurt your feelings."
Chris snorted, finally looking up from the plate. "That'll be the day.
Brigid Kemmerer
#31. You can't make them shut up, but you can damn teach them a lesson. - Johan
Diyar Harraz
#32. Oh, go away! You're in my eyes," said John in a loud voice.
"Sorry!" said the sunlight. "I must move from East to West in a day. Sorry! Shut your eyes and you won't see me.
P.L. Travers
#34. When I think about sex, you know, I want it to feel good. Not feel good, shut up, but right. Happy, not just banging away somewhere. You know, you should not just do it to do it. You should love the guy.
Daniel Handler
#35. (T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.
Thomas Mann
#36. It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.
Ice-T
#37. I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as with the last long chord of a record, the back cover crinkling closed, I could swear I heard a door click shut.
Marya Hornbacher
#38. When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.
Glenn Beck
#39. Real friends tell you the truth ... even when you want them to shut up.
Wes Fesler
#40. Cait," I called over, "how much is this going to cost?" Sudden silence. Every eye in the room fell upon me, cold as winter ice. "Right," I said, holding up a hand. "I'm just gonna maybe shut up now.
Craig Schaefer
#41. The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#42. You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
Jane Fonda
#43. weren't more severe. You should be good to go in a couple days. I'll be back to check on you in an hour." Arnie waited for the doctor to shut the door before he plopped down in the chair next to the bed.
Kathleen Brooks
#45. Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.
N. T. Wright
#46. Mouth sewn shut. Eyelids sewn shut. I forgot myself. The wind inside. Everything shut, and the wind inside.
Alejandra Pizarnik
#47. They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.
Bill O'Reilly
#48. The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
Eleonora Duse
#49. When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
Brunello Cucinelli
#50. Oh, shut up Hagan. I'm not doing it for you; I'm doing it for me. I don't want your blood getting all over my outfit.
J.L. McCoy
#51. It's always comforting to tell yourself things are going to be alright, because even if a part of you senses that you're lying, it's comforting to shut it out- shut out reality and pretend- because pretending is nice.
Emma Abdullah
#52. Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.
Cara Delevingne
#53. Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe.
Laozi
#54. Why don't you ever call me my prince?" Galen says, feigning insult.
"Shut up, my prince. There, is that better?
Anna Banks
#55. For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.
Robert Kiyosaki
#56. We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
Marge Piercy
#57. From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.
Kelvin Sampson
#59. When a thin person announces, "Here's a great taco place," I kind of shut down a little. How do they know it's so great? From smelling the tacos? If they only ate one taco, the taco could not have been that great.
Jim Gaffigan
#60. You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.
Sherwood Anderson
#61. Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
Mark Twain
#62. Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
Ben Carson
#64. None of this means anything. Anything of significance, that is. I am just amusing myself, musing, losing myself in a welter of words. For words in here are a form of luxury, of sensuousness, they are all we have been allowed to keep of the rich, wasteful world from which we are shut away.
John Banville
#65. THE AIR IN THE ROOM TASTES STERILE. THE LINGERING scent of bleach is mixing with the fresh white paint on the walls, and I wish my teacher would open the window to let in a breeze. But we're on the third floor so the pane is sealed shut - just in case anyone gets the urge to jump. I
Suzanne Young
#66. He took one look at Mimi and wilted. "Whoa. What did I miss?" "Shut up, Thomas." She turned and flounced away.
Jenna Evans Welch
#67. Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut Up.
Bill O'Reilly
#68. Love is just like God. Some believe in it, some don't. You can only feel love and that too if you are open to its existence. Likewise, an atheist cannot feel the presence of the divine because his mind is shut to the possibility of there being one.
Anurag Shourie
#69. Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Madeleine De Scudery
#70. "How many girls do you kiss against cars?" asked Echo in a clipped manner.
My mouth gaped, but no sound came out. Rico and his two cousins cackled at my expression. I snapped it shut when Echo winked. Damn, I loved it when she dished it back.
Katie McGarry
#71. Karl remembered his great truth, learned in the project: Never pass by a chance to shut up.
Gregory Benford
#72. Save your sweet talk for later, Daphne. The garbage guys just drove up with the new Dumpster."
"Shut the lid after you climb in.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#73. Hang on - Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually ... " Shane said.
"Shut up" Claire said.
Rachel Caine
#74. The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#75. I decided to keep my mouth shut. Sometimes I'm capable of it.
Rick Riordan
#76. If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'
Maisie Williams
#77. The world is full of pain, uncertainty, and injustice. But in this vulnerable human life, every loss is an opportunity either to shut out the world or to stand up with dignity and let the heart respond.
Jack Kornfield
#78. All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
James Buchan
#79. Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club
Jules Verne
#80. I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.
Franz Kafka
#81. Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted.
"Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.
Darren Shan
#83. Rats die. That's just how it is. Loose lips get sewn shut before they're tossed right off the ship.
J.M. Darhower
#84. In the past, people used to tell me to shut up a bit. But what I believe is to put out your opinion and let everyone else react. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
Mark Cuban
#85. Why is it that men reduce themselves to one-liners and bad movie quotes whenever they get into a fight?" said Parker. "Is there some kind of script they're supposed to follow when they get to this point? Or does the raging testosterone just shut down their higher brain functions?
Matt Forbeck
#86. There is a story ... which is fairly well known, told about when missionaries came to Africa, that they had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. And then they said, "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. And when we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible.
Desmond Tutu
#87. When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)
Pema Chodron
#88. Because you're well and truly in the closet at the back of the warehouse with the door shut, packaged up for some secure shipping container to shunt you out to the back of beyond...it's hypocritical. You're so far in the closet Narnia's your holiday home.
Kiki Archer
#89. Smoking pot makes people talk for long periods of time, for instance, so people who advocate pot won't shut the hell up about it.
Doug Benson
#90. You gotta be nice to strangers even when they are the worst, because they don't know you well enough to understand how shut your big face can mean I've missed you more than the whole world can know.
Catherynne M Valente
#91. I shut my eyes tightly, willing myself to go back to sleep. I want to go back to my dream, back to Caleb. I can't fucking breathe ! I can't breathe without him. I don't want to.
C.J. Roberts
#92. Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts that do six hundred damage? Does he get extra movement points for - "
"Nico, shut up!" Bianca put her hands to her face. "This is not your stupid Mythomagic game,
okay? There are no gods!
Rick Riordan
#93. Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mum told him to shut up. But she was smiling when she said it. Lucy liked that.
Kerrie O'Connor
#94. Felix can't act his way out of a box." "Boxes are tricky," Felix said, frowning. "And sometimes they're taped shut.
Shannon Hale
#95. Relationship doesn't remain, We resonate on different flames, I could cut you down again, If you were like all other men, If you were like all other men, I know that I could shut you down again
Amy Winehouse
#96. BAD THINGS HAPPEN THAT WE CAN'T CHANGE BUT THAT IS NO REASON YO SHUT OUT THE ONES WE LOVE
Anonymous
#97. His face remained immobile as he shut the door and walked back against the traffic. "No, they are not." Dog immediately jumped into the
Craig Johnson
#98. There's part of our brain that we shut off when we're in the studio. There's part of our brain that we turn on when we are out doing an interview or promoting something or waking up at six in the morning for hair and makeup.
Taylor Swift
#99. As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded - like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.
Valerie June
#100. John Kerry said today that he wants to get rid of tax cuts for the rich and his wife said, 'Hey, shut up! What's the matter with you?! Are you nuts?!'
Jay Leno
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