Top 100 Quotes About To Shut Up
#1. One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.
Anne Frank
#2. Think about this some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their duty. And it is our duty as loyal Americans to shut up once the fighting begins, unless unless facts prove the operation wrong, as was the case in Vietnam.
Bill O'Reilly
#4. It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.
Nathan Fillion
#5. It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To conclude is to shut up; and the man of science is not at all likely to shut up.
G.K. Chesterton
#6. You see, people don't really listen anymore, no... they just sit around waiting for everyone else to shut up, waiting until it's finally their turn to talk. Back and forth, an endless cycle that gets us nowhere, because nobody really gives a shit about what's being said.
J.M. Darhower
#7. He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up."
"Shut up!"
-Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game
Ridley Pearson
#8. Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture.
P. J. O'Rourke
#10. A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
Billie Joe Armstrong
#11. He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
Eddie Campbell
#12. Not knowing when to shut up was one of my greatest faults.
Boy George
#14. Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
Mark Twain
#15. 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
#16. Karl remembered his great truth, learned in the project: Never pass by a chance to shut up.
Gregory Benford
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Real friends tell you the truth ... even when you want them to shut up.
Wes Fesler
#20. 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
#21. I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.
Edward VII
#22. I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.
Ester Dean
#23. I was recently told by a guy friend that red lipstick during the summer is distracting, and I said, "You need to shut up because I love red lips in the summer." Guys are stupid, moral of the story.
Brittany Snow
#24. Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.
Judith Martin
#25. Knowledge is talkative, refuses to shut up..
Wisdom is so subtle, refuses to be invisible..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#26. My advice for Sebastian Kehl is: if you have a 35-point deficit in the league, it is better to shut up.
Pep Guardiola
#28. When I bore you, just tell me to shut up, I won't be offended.'
'I like to listen,' Stu said.
'Then you are one of God's chosen. Let's go.
Stephen King
#29. The leak that comes from the outside harms no one,' he stated once more. 'It is the leak that one finds indoors that is the worst.' When one is unmarried, one must tell people to shut up in a roundabout fashion.
Halldor Laxness
#30. Heden chose to shut up. He could not remember ever regretting silence.
Matthew Colville
#31. There are all of these people that say, my mommy doesn't love me enough, my daddy doesn't hug me enough. There are some people that would want to coddle them somewhere. I want them to shut up and stop whining.
Danny Bonaduce
#33. John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
Eric Idle
#35. Sam looked up at the ceiling. Are you bathing up there, Marcus? I am. Would you care to join me? She could almost see the smirk on his face when she told him to shut up.
Paula Quinn
#36. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up.
Mark Hart
#37. They'll never meet him. They'll never know that its actually possible for a boy to be so boring you'd agree to kiss him just to get him to shut up. I should get paid to listen to him talk when he calls on the phone. I should get a dollar fifty a hour. Minimum.
Alice Hoffman
#38. The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.
John Stossel
#39. What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.
Drew Houston
#40. My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!
Morena Baccarin
#41. Running my mouth has hurt enough people already - the least I can do is to shut up.
Hannah Harrington
#42. God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.
George Sand
#43. There was a part of my brain that wanted to ask if his wife had a beard, verify my theory. I told that part of my brain to shut up.
R.R. Virdi
#44. To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#45. If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
John Lydon
#46. Yes, Taylor learned at a very young age that the only way to get boys to shut up and play fairly was to show them that you took crap from no one.
Julie James
#47. So all you want is a kiss?" I asked. A little voice in my head said I was heading for one of those slippery slopes. I told the little voice to shut up.
"Well, maybe more than one. But basically, yeah.
Jenna Black
#48. I just want him to shut up and stop talking like this. I just want him to get up and follow me out of here. I just want to be back at Watford in our room, knowing he's there, and that he isn't hurting anyone, and no one is hurting him.
Rainbow Rowell
#49. When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
Karl Kraus
#50. The trouble with the dead, Triumvir Ilia Volyova thought, was that they had no real idea when to shut up.
Alastair Reynolds
#51. It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.
Auliq Ice
#52. In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.
Rich Froning Jr.
#53. Tell him to shut up! Tell him there's no crying in baseball!
Stephen King
#54. Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.
Max Irons
#55. One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.
Jesse Andrews
#56. WHEN YOU HEAR that now ubiquitous but dread phrase, 'I find that offensive', you know you're being told to shut up. It
Claire Fox
#57. A key to life is knowing what to ignore and when to shut up.
Lisa Bedrick
#58. There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
William Goldman
#59. Alice once told me artistry does not reside in motivation but rather stems from showing up, with the intent to be honest. When I meet a dreamer with calluses I try to shut up and listen.
Michael Perry
#60. My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
Raf Simons
#61. I have learned when two Republicans are talking about legalizing drugs to shut up.
Rachel Maddow
#62. You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups ... Children are not the problem here ... We spend the first year of their lives teaching them how to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#63. Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.
Anthony Holden
#64. I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up.
Corey Johnson
#65. Alec sounded defeated. "You just don't know when to shut up, do you?"
"It's a gift," Dylan said.
River Jaymes
#66. If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist.
ASAP Ferg
#67. I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
Tom Lehrer
#68. If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.
Robert Mankoff
#69. Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.
Mohsin Hamid
#70. People can tell you to shut up, but they can't keep you from having an opinion.
Anne Frank
#71. RELEASE THY BREATH, he advised. DROPETH THY SHOULDER. "I have shot a bow before," I grumbled. MINDETH THY RIGHT ELBOW, the arrow said. "Shut up." AND TELLEST NOT THINE ARROW TO SHUT UP.
Rick Riordan
#72. Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
Amy Bloom
#73. I'm only talking to one person here. If that's you, then you need to shut up and listen. If it's not, then you need to shut up because no one's talking to you.
Tana French
#75. Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.
Bill Jay
#76. Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.
Chris Rock
#77. If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
Peter Welch
#78. The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.
Mark Twain
#79. wedding anniversary aren't the people who never fought with their partners, but actually people who knew when to talk and when to shut up, always showing appreciation for the other person.
Gavin Bird
#80. The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.
Lance Armstrong
#81. When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.
Prince William
#82. Pat the little Spaceman on the head and get him to shut up, so we can get on with the important works of making the very same mistakes we made on planet Earth in the first place!
Steve Merrick
#83. I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.
FKA Twigs
#84. I'm most biased about how white people have to learn to shut up when the conversation of racism comes up. White people have to learn to listen. Whether they agree with what they're hearing or not, they have to know to shut up and listen.
W. Kamau Bell
#86. He comes.
And he comes
loaded
with noise pollution.
If I ever prayed for anything,
it was for a man
to shut up.
Casey Renee Kiser
#87. Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
James Wolcott
#89. Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.
Sophia Amoruso
#90. Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.
Phil Donahue
#91. People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.
Bassem Youssef
#92. Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.
Peter Hammill
#93. Network administrators all share an abiding and passionate desire for one thing: We want our users to shut up.
Michael W. Lucas
#94. I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
Patrick Swayze
#95. Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't
Bill Whittle
#96. I think our sense as actors of what we've just done - whether or not it be in an audition - is usually really not connected to any truth. I'm always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.
Lily James
#97. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.
Meg Cabot
#98. Newsflash for any of the current, past or future Survivors out there ... when you contemplate strategizing about the other team, the best idea is to shut up and keep it to yourself. You're welcome; this bill is in the mail.
Jenna Morasca
#99. It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
Alex Trebek
