Shut Up Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

  Alice Cary

  Spring, Book, Autumn

  Alice Cary (1876). “The Last Poems: Of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.136

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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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• 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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• 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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• And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story like that," Nedley laughed. "What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!

  Margaret Haddix

  Guy, Needs, Stories

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Among the Brave”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

  Ester Dean

  Girl, Fighting, Labels

  "Hitmaker Ester Dean on Songwriting, Fighting and Eating Hot Dogs (Q&A)". Interview with Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 6, 2013.

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• The only way to establish any kind of mystique, is to completely shut up and never talk to anyone. And I'm contractually obligated not to shut up.

  Robert Pattinson

  Way, Kind, Mystique

  "He's Hot, He's Sexy, He's Undead" by Alex Pappademas, www.gq.com. February 28, 2009.

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• You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.

  Alec Sulkin

  Special, Trying, Reason

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2012

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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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• We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.

  Phil Donahue

  Mother, War, Believe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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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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• 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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• 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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• Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation.

  David Hume

  Mean, Learning, College

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.368

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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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• I guess my main worry is that people will start hating what I hate about myself. I worry that everyone will think I am really annoying and just want me to shut up. Which would make so much sense because I annoy myself... I guess I want people to know that if they are annoyed with me, I get it, it's totally cool. Please forgive me.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Hate, Thinking, People

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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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• When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?

  Jonah Goldberg

  Moving, Mean, Past

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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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• We've got Nancy Pelosi. She never shuts up. It's just occasionally we have to hood her like a falcon so we can get some sleep.

  Dennis Miller

  Sleep, Nancy, Hood

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

  Raf Simons

  Couple, Ideas, Assistants

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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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• George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist. But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?"

  Wendy Williams

  People, Hot, Wonderful

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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