Shuts Quotes

122 quotes by 110 authors

The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
There's a terrible stillness. I notice a small tear in the wallpaper above her shoulder. I notice finger marks grimed on the light switch. Somewhere… — Jenny Downham
And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality. — Sylvia Plath
Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when… — Carl Sandburg
At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart — Edith Wharton
Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You… — Salman Rushdie
The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more. — Emily Dickinson
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. — Oscar Wilde
From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I… — Anne Rice
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is:… — Orhan Pamuk
It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does. — Hugh Nibley
In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse… — Helen Keller
The woods are never solitaryâ€“ they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has… — Kaye Gibbons
They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they havenâ€™t been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to… — Charlaine Harris
At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down. — Lauren Oliver

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