Shut Up Quotes - Page 16

• Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Strong, Want, Furniture

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• If somebody tries to tell me the earth was created in 7 days I take a fossil and say "FOSSIL". If he still won't shut up I throw it at him.

  Lewis Black

  Trying, Earth, Fossils

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• Sometimes people need to be told to sit down and shut up.

  Chris Christie

  People, Needs, Down And

  "CPAC highlights, from the speeches to the swag". www.usatoday.com. February 26, 2015.

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• Sometimes I criticize movies. It's not fun to watch a movie with me, because I'll go, "That was a really bad shot." My mom's like, "Shut up, Chloe, watch the film!"

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Fun, Film, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My advice for Sebastian Kehl is: if you have a 35-point deficit in the league, it is better to shut up.

  Pep Guardiola

  League, Advice, Deficit

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• If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

  Bruce McCall

  Attitude, Pride, Ideas

  Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage

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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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• When you have a Dancing partner, there's always gonna be a moment where the girl's gonna cry, Ginger didn't do that. But, most every other girl I've worked with have cried because they said "aah, I can't do it" and I have to go "Yes, you can, Shut up!" and they do do it.

  Fred Astaire

  Girl, Yes You Can, Dancing

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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 tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

  Malachy McCourt

  Children, Years, Married

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

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• If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

  John Lydon

  Opportunity, Going Away, Attention

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• Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'

  Joe Namath

  Funny, Names

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• They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

  Sarah Palin

  Smart, Thinking, Ems

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• My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

  John Piper

  Mother, Gasoline, Mouths

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• The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.

  Bruno Dumont

  Narrative, Quiet, Assumption

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they should shut up because you know what you're talking about.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Talking, Dollars, Use

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You didn't have to come after me." "Yes, I did," he said. "You're far too inexperienced to protect yourself in a hostile situation without me." "That's sweet. Maybe I'll forgive you." "Forgive me? Fro what?" "Fro telling me to shut up." His eyes narrowed. "I did not... Well, I did, But you were-" "Never mind.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Eye, Forgive Me

  Cassandra Clare (2017). “City of Bones: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

  Grace Jones

  People, Impatient, Used

  "Grace Jones: 'God I'm scary. I'm scaring myself'". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2010.

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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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• Nobody tells her to shut up. It would be pointless. Amy has a large heart and an even larger mouth. When it rains, Amy rescues worms off the sidewalk. When you get tired of having a secret, you tell Amy. Understand: Amy isn't that much stupider than anyone else in the story. It's just that she thinks out loud.

  Kelly Link

  Rain, Tired, Heart

  Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.85, Canongate Books

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• Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Two, Laughing

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• Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mean, Fowl, Quiet

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• Just shut up!!!!! this is all your fault!!!!! I hate you!!!!!" -Kagome

  Rumiko Takahashi

  Hate, Faults, Kagome

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• Angels can fail because God allows them to make decisions and they are lesser beings than the perfect God. They can go astray, but the task is legitimate. God never tells they aren't allowed to instruct people - "just shut up and babysit them".

  Michael S. Heiser

  Angel, People, Perfect

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

  Edward Young

  Air, Psychology, Want

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1803). “Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life”, p.52

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