Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness Votes: 3
Andre GideCofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word. Votes: 3
Christopher MooreMy advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds. Votes: 3
Errol MorrisShut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. Votes: 3
William OslerLeave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied. Votes: 3
Darren ShanSomeday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time. Votes: 3
Jonathan LethemShut up, Nick. (Talon) 'Shut up, Nick, heel, sit, fetch.' Love you too, Celt. (Nick) Votes: 3
Sherrilyn KenyonYou all sound like a bunch of ducks! What? What? What? What? Shut up while I'm talking! Votes: 3
The MizI remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybodys like, Shut up. Votes: 3
Sean PaulCherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it. Votes: 3
Joyce Carol OatesWhenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'. Votes: 3
Kurt VonnegutI remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.' Votes: 3
Sean PaulDon't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me! Votes: 3
Eric ThomasCome when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid. Votes: 3
Maria EdgeworthShut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman. Votes: 3
SaadiIf I've got the powers of a god, then why am I so..." "Lame?" Sadie suggested. "Shut up," I said. Votes: 3
Rick RiordanIf I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.' Votes: 3
Maisie WilliamsHe has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You. Votes: 3
Louise RennisonOne of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut. Votes: 2
Eric ClaptonOnly buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. Votes: 2
Warren BuffettTruth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. Votes: 2
Elvis PresleyI was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! Votes: 2
Ingrid BergmanAlways do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Votes: 2
Ernest HemingwayI shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. Votes: 2
Sylvia PlathI'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do. Votes: 2
Patrick SwayzeI found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look. Votes: 2
Kenneth WilliamsPeople who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. Votes: 0
James A. BaldwinMen should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. Votes: 0
Madeleine de ScuderyDon't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices. Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraSchools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep. Votes: 0
Andy HargreavesJoy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town. Votes: 0
George BurnsIf a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion. Votes: 0
Muhammad Taqi UsmaniBeppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page. Votes: 0
Douglas AdamsThe people I know who would support [Donald] Trump are keeping their mouths shut. Votes: 0
Junot DiazIf television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up. Votes: 0
Dorothy GambrellI have learned when two Republicans are talking about legalizing drugs to shut up. Votes: 0
Rachel MaddowA special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one. Votes: 0
Evan EsarThe workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeingâs profit-making machine, Votes: 0
Kshama SawantAnything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut. Votes: 0
Shelagh DelaneyDreams don't always have to exist while the sun's down and your eyes are shut Votes: 0
Alex GaskarthYou can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains. Votes: 0
Bruce SpringsteenThe only way to shut people up is just by winning and just playing basketball. Votes: 0
Dwight HowardShe grabbed his face and pulled him into a kiss, which effectively shut him up. Votes: 0
Rick RiordanIf I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing. Votes: 0
Muhammad AliTell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up. Votes: 0
Ann B. DavisI, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. Votes: 0
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDarken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company. Votes: 0
Austin Osman SpareWhining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up. Votes: 0
Jessica ZafraWhen you walk through that door of opportunity you don't slam it shut behind you, Votes: 0
Michelle ObamaYou're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play. Votes: 0
Marat SafinA smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway. Votes: 0
Rachel VincentBeing an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes. Votes: 0
Keariene MuizzSometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up. Votes: 0
Mark HartSometimes I shut up cause I'm afraid I don't have anything interesting to tell anyway Votes: 0
Nick CarterSeeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open. Votes: 0
T.F. HodgeThere are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalIndividualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself. Votes: 0
Carl Jung...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out. Votes: 0
Huangbo XiyunCoffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes. Votes: 0
Alexander PopePlease understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents Votes: 0
Dennis PragerMunicipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut. Votes: 0
Frank LautenbergFor many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy. Votes: 0
Najib RazakThe love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up. Votes: 0
Robertson DaviesNo one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. Votes: 0
Sam RayburnBut my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut. Votes: 0
Gayle FormanIf you want to change somebody, don't preach to him. Set an example and shut up. Votes: 0
Jack LaLanneOne of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisI'll be whatever you allow me to be, Blaire. Just don't shut me out again. Please. Votes: 0
Abbi GlinesWhen we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out. Votes: 0
May SartonIn training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up. Votes: 0
Rich Froning Jr.If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down. Votes: 0
David ShoreOne should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up. Votes: 0
Arthur KoestlerDon't keep all your feelings sheltered - express them. Don't EVER let life shut you up." Votes: 0
Steve MaraboliWant to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes. Votes: 0
GodfreyWhat, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts... Votes: 0
William ShakespeareI adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes. Votes: 0
Isaac MarionThere's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say. Votes: 0
Jennifer WeinerWho said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up. Votes: 0
Susan BrownmillerLove is a landscape the long mountains define but don't shut off from the unseeable distance. Votes: 0
Denise LevertovThe body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up. Votes: 0
Lance ArmstrongIf a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. Votes: 0
Tom LehrerMost men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut. Votes: 0
J. Ogden ArmourThey [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up! Votes: 0
Michael ScottWouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonCome children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. Votes: 0
William Makepeace ThackerayShe told me to draw the curtains shut, so I grabbed my pencil and began to sketch. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzI don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down. Votes: 0
Judi DenchI just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes. Votes: 0
Mark ThomasYou are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen? Votes: 0
Kim HarrisonPain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time. Votes: 0
Colson WhiteheadAs so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut. Votes: 0
Prince PhilipThe more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives. Votes: 0
Jim C. HinesNature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing. Votes: 0
Pietro AretinoI have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories. Votes: 0
Ryan TedderIf I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut. Votes: 0
Donald TrumpThis world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellOn sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut. Votes: 0
Marvin OlaskyIf you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineI get very cranky when interrupted. I snap at people, sigh dramatically and slam my door shut. Votes: 0
Margaret MaronSometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up." Votes: 0
Tom StoppardLove with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care. Votes: 0
Thomas PynchonYou couldnât keep your mouth shut? Iâm calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot. Votes: 0
Cinda Williams ChimaIt's my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday! "Happy birthday!" I yelled. "Now shut up! Votes: 0
Rick RiordanWhen youre in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie! Votes: 0
Salli RichardsonIt is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. Votes: 0
Salman RushdieWhen you're in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie! Votes: 0
Salli RichardsonTruth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away. Votes: 0
Elvis PresleyThere is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up. Votes: 0
David Hope, Baron Hope of ThornesThe road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut. Votes: 0
Bion of BorysthenesI don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up. Votes: 0
Neal StephensonLet the doors be shut upon him, that he may play thefool no where but in's own house. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareLet us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us. Votes: 0
Francis BeaumontWriting is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work. Votes: 0
Philip K. DickYou know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. Votes: 0
Michael ConnellyI try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible. Votes: 0
Zach CondonAlways do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayIt's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence. Votes: 0
Alex TrebekAfter I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too. Votes: 0
Patricia BriggsWhen someone insults me, I simply shut down. Then I open back up at 9 am the next morning. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzAll that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head. Votes: 0
Louis-Ferdinand CelineIf you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut Votes: 0
Simon MunneryThe silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined. Votes: 0
Elizabeth BowenBarrons: "He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off." Mac: "The child?" I gasped Votes: 0
Karen Marie MoningThe husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. Votes: 0
Groucho MarxI came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers. Votes: 0
Rodney DangerfieldThe media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while. Votes: 0
Kevin DrumKnowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time. Votes: 0
Malcolm ForbesI shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I think I made you up inside my head. Votes: 0
Sylvia PlathMy gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it. Votes: 0
Olusegun ObasanjoI loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book. Votes: 0
Will SelfI wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write. Votes: 0
Franz KafkaI do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinI feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. Votes: 0
Tom LehrerAnd I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless. Votes: 0
Billy SherwoodWhen people think you are speaking against them as a group, they try to shut it down out here. Votes: 0
Steve HarveyGreatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it. Votes: 0
Lionel RichieThere should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power. Votes: 0
Lewis BlackI have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson. Votes: 0
Christina HendricksLeaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you. Votes: 0
Andy StanleyCherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse. Votes: 0
ZhuangziThe object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonAs for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell. Votes: 0
Allen WestWhen we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiA friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me. Votes: 0
Logan Pearsall SmithTen doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue. Votes: 0
Saib TabriziNo one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent. Votes: 0
Albert SchweitzerPeople can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion. Votes: 0
Anne FrankGod has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut Votes: 0
Alexander Graham BellSome women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture. Votes: 0
P. J. O'RourkeI don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaBut the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar. Votes: 0
Bradley NowellI find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read. Votes: 0
Christopher HamptonAll I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up. Votes: 0
Martha GriffithsIt is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonJust sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out. Votes: 0
Philip PullmanIf your husband wants to lick the beaters on the mixer, shut them off before you give them to him. Votes: 0
Phyllis DillerSometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up. Votes: 0
Stephen KingYou may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. Votes: 0
Maxwell MaltzI've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful. Votes: 0
Danielle SteelWhat you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas. Votes: 0
Ernesto SirolliSome day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up. Votes: 0
Miles DavisThere comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen. Votes: 0
Art ShellI'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut. Votes: 0
James Badge DaleI am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself. Votes: 0
Angelus SilesiusI've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it. Votes: 0
Hoodie AllenBion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut. Votes: 0
Diogenes LaertiusRoy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door Votes: 0
Garrison KeillorI cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you? Votes: 0
Audre LordeSet me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up... Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up. Votes: 0
Tupac ShakurBefore you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say. Votes: 0
Kristin Hersh[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes. Votes: 0
Joseph HallThe recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents. Votes: 3 Bob Schaffer
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out. Votes: 3 Marty Meehan
I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.' Votes: 1 Sean Paul
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Votes: 1 Benjamin Franklin
In the wake of the Internet getting shut down in Egypt - something that also happened in Xinjiang - I know that there are groups working on ways to help people get online when domestic networks get shut down. This could also be of use to some people in China. Votes: 3 Rebecca MacKinnon
During the Reagan years, government shut down eight different times under a Democrat Congress. The president and Congress worked together and got things straightened out. Under the Carter years, again a Democrat Congress, the government shut down five times. Votes: 3 Mitt Romney
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Votes: 1 Benjamin Franklin
I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now. Votes: 1 Jane Wyman
You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off. Votes: 3 Andy Rooney
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. Votes: 1 Corey Johnson
I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible. Votes: 1 Grace Jones
I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories. Votes: 4 Ryan Tedder