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Quotes About Shut

I do not want the voice of the people shut out.
~ Huey Long
Aunt Maggie turned a gaze on her that would have shrivelled the English Channel to a puddle. She didn't actually say, "Shut yer gob." She didn't have to. Miss Giles shut her gob.
~ Pip Granger
We're a team," his dad repeated. "That's what we've always said. This is how we survive, right? Together. It's you and me against the world. But you shut me out on this one. And you let down the team.
~ Alan Gratz
Another longish pause. His eyelids were getting heavy. "Ever kill a man, Marlowe?" "Yes." "Nasty feeling, isn't it?" "Some people like it." His eyes went shut all the way. Then they opened again, but they looked vague. "How could they?
~ Raymond Chandler
Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?' The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: 'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.
~ Kafka, Franz
He shrugged. "Are you going to answer me?" "You told me to shut up.
~ Karin Slaughter
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
~ Max Lerner
Hey, moose!" I screamed. The Set animal locked its glowing eyes one me. Well done! Horus said. Now we'll both die with honor! Shut up, I thought.
~ Rick Riordan
I've done more for the 9/11 families, by their own admission, I've done more for them than you will ever hope to do so you keep your mouth shut.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Buff paused beneath a shut and locked window, some three feet from the ground. He gathered his waning strength f or one more effort, and sprang upward. Through the thin and cracked glass and the rotting sash he chose his way, alighting on the slimy concrete floor of the garage amid a shower of window particles.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said;Tie up the knocker! say I'm sick, I'm dead.The Dog-star rages!
~ Alexander Pope
Welcome, all wonders in one sight!Eternity shut in a span.
~ Richard Crashaw
The day the library was shut down, he thought, some maiden librarian had moved down the room, pushing each chair against its table. Carefully, with a plodding precision that was the cachet of herself.
~ Richard Matheson
The ring of keys was still in my coat pocket, and I pulled them out as I reached the door, flashed my light briefly on the lock and then started choosing keys. The second one turned the lock noiselessly. I pushed the door open easily, slipped inside, and shut it.
~ Richard S. Prather
We must neither bind where God looseth, nor loose where God bindeth, nor open where God shutteth, nor shut where God openeth; the right use of the keys is always successful.
~ Richard Sibbes
It's my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday! "Happy birthday!" I yelled. "Now shut up!
~ Rick Riordan
Hey, moose!" I screamed. The Set animal locked its glowing eyes one me. Well done! Horus said. Now we'll both die with honor! Shut up, I thought.
~ Rick Riordan
its my birthday wish me happy birthday horus said happy birthday I yelled now shut up
~ Rick Riordan
It could mean that some unknowable Spirit ruled the world & directed his actions, or perhaps that he had simply been lucky. Perhaps it meant that the avoidance motive - fear - should be ignored in all-important matters. The Room of Vital Wisdom may be empty, he thought, but shut should not prevent us from going inside.
~ David Rhodes
Glutton shoved her lump of a husband off her and scrambled to her feet. Next she shut off the ice-cream tap, which had still been splurging away. CLICK! "It's Ned," announced Ned, still hovering outside their van on his slocket. "Remember me?
~ David Walliams
Shut ya face. I'm watchin' TV and stuffin' meself!" came the woman's gruff voice from the lounge.
~ David Walliams
Magazines like that are for girls! And woofters!" "SHUT UP!" said Dad. Dennis
~ David Walliams
Sometimes all we have to do is make the simple choice to stop being angry or fearful in order to discover the infinite wonders of the Universe that await us behind a door we shut long ago.
~ Molly Friedenfeld
You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.
~ Cormega