Shut Quotes

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

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.

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

I wasn't the guy everyone liked. I was the guy that wouldn't shut up.

I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life.

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

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.