Shut Quotes

1936 Shut quotes by 1298 unique authors

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not… — C.S. Lewis
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more… — Oscar Wilde
A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my… — Haruki Murakami
Jeez banana! Shut your freaking gob! — Diablo Cody
That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for… — Michel de Montaigne
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to… — Henry Miller
If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of… — Harper Lee
I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the… — E. M. Forster
Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world… — Sherman Alexie
Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door… — Douglas Adams
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it,… — Louisa May Alcott
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably… — J D Salinger
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.… — Shirley Jackson
Shut up,' he explained. — Ring Lardner
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is… — Pema Chodron
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may… — Joseph Conrad
Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open… — Sarah Dessen
You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to… — Ann Brashares
She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe. — C.S. Lewis
Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it… — Eoin Colfer
At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I… — Sarah Dessen
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's… — Anne Lamott
When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a… — Shannon Hale
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… — Rick Riordan
Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big… — Jack Kerouac

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