Shut Up Quotes - Page 15

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

  Henri Rabaud

  Pockets, Salzburg

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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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• 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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• 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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• The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of his nose and climbed up from there to tickle into his teardrop ducts, so in his moss green pupils, curious, insistent, accusing sparks of questions continued to light up and fade away like fireflies flitting about on summer nights.

  Elif Safak

  Summer, Children, Firefly

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• Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up.

  Susan Brownmiller

  Clothes, Said, Understatement

  Susan Brownmiller (2013). “Femininity”, p.86, Open Road Media

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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 if people are having trouble communicating with one
  another, the least they can do is SHUT UP.

  Tom Lehrer

  Thinking, People, Trouble

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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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• John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.

  Eric Idle

  Pounds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.

  George Herbert

  Crafts, Shops

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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

  Artemas Ward

  Writing, Grammar, Shops

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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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• 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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• 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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• all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.

  Gena Rowlands

  Creating, Creative, Criticism

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• An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Thinking, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2238, Delphi Classics

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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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• ... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I have attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Night, Thinking, Two

  Margaret Oliphant (2002). “The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant”, p.67, Broadview Press

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• 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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• Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.

  Mark Hart

  Long, Want, Praying

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.12, Franciscan Media

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• Note to self: If you can't hear God when you pray, shut up.

  Mark Hart

  Self, Praying, Notes

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