One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up. Votes: 4
Arthur KoestlerYou all sound like a bunch of ducks! What? What? What? What? Shut up while I'm talking! Votes: 4
The MizIt's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence. Votes: 4
Alex TrebekSome day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up. Votes: 4
Miles DavisSomeday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time. Votes: 3
Jonathan LethemIf a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. Votes: 2
Tom LehrerThere is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up. Votes: 2
David Hope, Baron Hope of ThornesI was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! Votes: 2
Ingrid BergmanI'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 WilliamsCofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word. Votes: 0
Christopher MooreIf 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 MaddowSometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up. Votes: 0
Mark HartI, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. Votes: 0
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyMy advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds. Votes: 0
Errol MorrisTell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up. Votes: 0
Ann B. DavisShe grabbed his face and pulled him into a kiss, which effectively shut him up. Votes: 0
Rick RiordanThe only way to shut people up is just by winning and just playing basketball. Votes: 0
Dwight HowardA smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway. Votes: 0
Rachel VincentWhining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up. Votes: 0
Jessica ZafraSometimes I shut up cause I'm afraid I don't have anything interesting to tell anyway Votes: 0
Nick CarterYou're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play. Votes: 0
Marat SafinSeeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open. Votes: 0
T.F. HodgeLeave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied. Votes: 0
Darren ShanIn training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up. Votes: 0
Rich Froning Jr.Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up. Votes: 0
Susan BrownmillerDon't keep all your feelings sheltered - express them. Don't EVER let life shut you up." Votes: 0
Steve MaraboliWhat, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts... Votes: 0
William ShakespeareShut up, Nick. (Talon) 'Shut up, Nick, heel, sit, fetch.' Love you too, Celt. (Nick) Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonIf you want to change somebody, don't preach to him. Set an example and shut up. Votes: 0
Jack LaLanneThe love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up. Votes: 0
Robertson DaviesWouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineI have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories. Votes: 0
Ryan TedderI remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybodys like, Shut up. Votes: 0
Sean PaulNature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing. Votes: 0
Pietro AretinoSometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up." Votes: 0
Tom StoppardIt's my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday! "Happy birthday!" I yelled. "Now shut up! Votes: 0
Rick RiordanYou are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen? Votes: 0
Kim HarrisonThe body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up. Votes: 0
Lance ArmstrongThey [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up! Votes: 0
Michael ScottCome children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. Votes: 0
William Makepeace ThackerayI remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.' Votes: 0
Sean PaulBarrons: "He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off." Mac: "The child?" I gasped Votes: 0
Karen Marie MoningWhenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'. Votes: 0
Kurt VonnegutAll that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head. Votes: 0
Louis-Ferdinand CelineWhen someone insults me, I simply shut down. Then I open back up at 9 am the next morning. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzYou know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. Votes: 0
Michael ConnellyWriting is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work. Votes: 0
Philip K. DickI don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up. Votes: 0
Neal StephensonLet us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us. Votes: 0
Francis BeaumontI shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I think I made you up inside my head. Votes: 0
Sylvia PlathDon't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me! Votes: 0
Eric ThomasSome women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture. Votes: 0
P. J. O'RourkeI feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. Votes: 0
Tom LehrerI do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinWhat you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas. Votes: 0
Ernesto SirolliIf I've got the powers of a god, then why am I so..." "Lame?" Sadie suggested. "Shut up," I said. Votes: 0
Rick RiordanIf I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.' Votes: 0
Maisie WilliamsI don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaAll I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up. Votes: 0
Martha GriffithsSometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up. Votes: 0
Stephen KingI am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself. Votes: 0
Angelus SilesiusSet 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
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