Shutting Quotes
102 Shutting quotes by 88 unique authors
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The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
— Criss Jami
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Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by…
— Gerhard Richter
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I've delivered lots of babies, and I know about these things. It is true. We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble…
— Phil Gingrey
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The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players,…
— Roger Goodell
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I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at…
— James Stockdale
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I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a…
— Seneca the Younger
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The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.
— Judith Martin
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We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea…
— Bill Watterson
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Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.
— John Waters
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do…
— Veronica Roth
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Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of…
— C.S. Lewis
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I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do…
— Russell Crowe
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All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my…
— Graham Norton
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Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
— Peter Tork
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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still…
— David Foster Wallace
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
— Bill Watterson
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But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge…
— Anne Frank
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When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale.…
— Neil Gaiman
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl
— Eoin Colfer
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
— Franz Kafka
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Who Wrote These Shutting Quotes
88 authors contributed a total of 102 Shutting Quotes, led by these top contributors: