Shut Quotes - page 4

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory. (Jello Biafra)
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty! View quote
Jules Verne
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The Way to ſee by Faith is to ſhut the Eye of Reaſon: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut. View quote
Bion of Borysthenes
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. View quote
Tom Lehrer
I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up. View quote
Tom Lehrer
I can't see heaven but I credit hell - I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home. View quote
John Brunner
It's an unfair position, so you can do one of two things: just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or just learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do. View quote
Jane Fonda
I was in Chicago in 1994 and at this time I had no thoughts of coming back and playing the game of basketball, Bryon Russell came over to me and said, "Why'd you quit? You know I could guard you." When I did come back in 1995 and we played Utah in '96, I'm at the center circle and Bryon Russell is standing next to me. I said, "You remember what you said in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' View quote
Michael Jordan
I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak. (Sitting Bull)
Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say. View quote
Kristen Hersh
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. View quote
Salman Rushdie
My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre. View quote
Stephen Spender
Never miss a good chance to shut up. View quote
Will Rogers
The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces. View quote
Nicole Krauss
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. View quote
Warren Buffett
The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business. View quote
Milton Friedman
I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules. View quote
Ellen DeGeneres
Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos. View quote
Subcomandante Marcos
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. (Émile Zola)
The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well. View quote
Eric Bogosian
Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come. View quote
Robertson Davies
And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors. View quote
Conor Oberst
It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up. View quote
Peter Greenaway