Shut Up Quotes - Page 14

• 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.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Love Is, Fire

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• The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.

  Isak Dinesen

  Grieving, People, House

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• Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.

  Chris Martin

  Sex, Talking, Massage

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.

  Rick Riordan

  Wind, Nuts, Patterns

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

  E. M. Forster

  Taken, Heart, Eye

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.86, 谷月社

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• In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Jobs, Views, Creating

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• Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. Will you shut up? he said tautly. Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry' he said, I sneezed. A person can't help it when they sneeze. Perhaps not. But you could try to make it sound a little less like an elephant trumpeting in agony; Will told him.

  John Flanagan

  Sorry, Apology, Agony

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• Shigure: JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A SECOND, KYO! Kyo: SHUT UP! I HATE THIS! DO YOU REALLY GET THAT MUCH ENJOYMENT FROM PLAYING WITH PEOPLES' LIVES?! Shigure: Well, yes, now that you mention it, I do--BUT THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD! Kyo: Man, your persuasion skills SUCK! Tohru: Um, welcome home. Dinner's- Kyo: NOT HUNGRY! Shigure: KYO! DON'T TAKE THIS OUT ON TOHRU! And come back to the entrance hall this instant and take those shoes off! Yuki: He's right, Shigure. You really do suck at persuasion.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Hate, Home, Men

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• I think that nonexistent mythological creature just broke some of your toes," Jack said. Oh, shut up," said Charles

  James A. Owen

  Thinking, Toes, Broke

  James A. Owen (2015). “Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.

  Neal Stephenson

  Want, Annoying, Freeze

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.148, Spectra

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• In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it's absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it's cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right...I hope they're proud of themselves, because they nearly broke my mom's heart.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Mom, Couple, Military

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• Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word.

  Christopher Moore

  Groups, Etc, Coworker

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Fool: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• If I'm having relentless thoughts, I just won't shut up in my head. I know that if I put myself on the mat and just focus on a flow that I will transmute or I will transform, transfer the energy into some other act or put my attention somewhere else, I'll be back. I'll feel stronger not only in my body but most certainly in my brain.

  Jason Mraz

  Somewhere Else, Focus, Brain

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• Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

  Sarah Palin

  Speaks Out, Political, Politics

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• If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.

  Lewis Black

  Abortion, Rooms, Want

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Pride, Guy, Ego

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• 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

  Wings, Literature, Pressure

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• 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!

  Jules Verne

  Wall, Exercise, Men

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Journey to the Interior of the Earth”, p.150, Jules Verne

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• A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.

  Artemas Ward

  Writing, Grammar, Shops

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• I often went entire days without speaking - unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up: “You fat, disgusting slob, you'll never be thin enough, good enough, smart enough, tough or talented enough.

  Aimee Liu

  Smart, Tough, Good Enough

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• The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

  Henri Rabaud

  Pockets, Salzburg

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• If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Father, Believe, House

  Source: collider.com

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• Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

  Plutarch

  Soldier, Miserable, Forts

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• A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

  Isaac Watts

  College, Cells, Soul

  Isaac Watts (1832). “The Improvement of the Mind: To which are Added a Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth; and Short Essays on Various Subjects”, p.31

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• The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

  Robertson Davies

  Names, Speak, Homosexuality

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