Shuts Quotes

122 Shuts quotes by 110 unique authors

If everything you say gets laughed at...then you become afraid of everyone... and are no longer able to speak... even knowing all that does is… — Natsuki Takaya
The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand… — Edgar Guest
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book… — Helen Keller
The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require… — Rush Limbaugh
My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it. — Olusegun Obasanjo
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts… — Virginia Woolf
Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school… — Greg Graffin
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on… — Homer
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb… — Jeanette Winterson
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses… — Albert Camus
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

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110 authors contributed a total of 122 Shuts Quotes, led by these top contributors: