Top 425 Shut Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Shut Quotes from famous people such as Tori Amos, Michael Chandler, Kieran Culkin, Sheila Hancock, FKA twigs, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what y

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
Tori Amos
It’s damage to a nerve. It pretty much shut down the whole lower part of my left leg. I wasn’t able to step anymore. It’s called foot drop – basically, you can’t lift your foot.
Michael Chandler
I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.
Kieran Culkin
I can’t keep my trap shut in interviews – I’m not very good at dissembling.
Sheila Hancock
I’ve soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.
FKA twigs
I’m in control of my social media, I can shut it off when I want to and when it gets to in my head, and I can interact with the fans when I want to, too.
Anya Chalotra
Strong alliances can thrive even where disagreements exist, but they cannot thrive where free and open communication is shut down.
Sharice Davids
I’ve filmed a lot of my videos in Compton, but filming a movie, we really can’t do it because the police will come and shut you down.
YG
The people who know me do not ask me about the next book or how it’s going. They ask, ‘Jason, are you sleeping?’ because they know my brain will not shut down.
Jason Reynolds
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
Will Self
It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.
Donald Hall
I used to be one of those kids who couldn’t keep my mouth shut.
Ian Brown
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I’m not a gossip. The worst thing anyone can say to me is, ‘Ooh, I’ve got some gossip.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, shut up.’
Jane Fallon
Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.
Christopher Hitchens
Beautiful women get in Hollywood’s door quickest and then are shut out when their beauty no longer measures up to whatever it is that Hollywood or audiences decide is beautiful enough; once they’re inside, their choices are limited by the same beauty that won them their entree.
Steve Erickson
After I started getting criticism for doing ‘Big Brother,’ someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host ‘Concentration’ and Mike Wallace used to do ‘The Big Surprise.’ I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn’t sealed shut if I want to do ’60 Minutes’ one day.
Julie Chen
You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it’s like being able to sing Evita – people shut up about it already.
Ana Gasteyer
Let’s shut down the EPA.
Joni Ernst
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don’t care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
Warren Rudman
All I can say is that we cannot shut our eyes to Western culture if that is not going to suit ours.
P. T. Usha
Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
Richard King
Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, ‘I’m sorry for taking over your show.’ She said, ‘No, that’s why we have you here.’
Iyanla Vanzant
And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don’t just try to shut them up.
Roger Ebert
I do feel a wave come over me when I hear those two words, ‘Star’ and ‘Wars,’ said together. I feel tense, shut up, and stare into the middle distance.
Domhnall Gleeson
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
Tom Lehrer
I never really played the game, doing what it takes to be a star, to keep your mouth shut.
Rosanna Arquette
I have been hugely honoured to have played for my country and I would never shut the door.
Gary Cahill
If you don’t like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don’t keep talking about it.
Linda Gray
I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if I can just keep my mouth shut for five minutes a student will say it. So for me a lot of teaching is about keeping my mouth shut.
Greil Marcus
I remember as a kid, my mom had to trade canned food to

I remember as a kid, my mom had to trade canned food to buy my brother and me chocolate because we were living in Serbia at the time, and there were sanctions. If I catch myself complaining about going to a red carpet event, I say, ‘Shut up.’
Andreja Pejic
People choose to shut themselves off and build a load of defense mechanisms and not let anybody in because it’s easier that way. You don’t get hurt, and there’s less risk involved if you build this hard shell.
Emma Mackey
I don’t think it’s wise to shut down the government.
Matt Bevin
When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.
William Godwin
Thanksgiving is the only day of the year when most of the stores here are closed during the day and reopen after midnight. Even restaurants shut down for the holiday, except for the fast-food chains.
Sayed Kashua
In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it’s a new normal. It’s just not true: We’ve had multiple wars; we’re not educating our kids. We had government shut downs, badly-spent money, failures in the health system, failures and an extreme amount of regulation – that’s why we’re going slow.
Jamie Dimon
Sometimes it’s other people’s voices you have to shut out.
Kelly Osbourne
Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
Maajid Nawaz
I think I’m generally more inspired when I’m away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your room with your phones and screens shut off, I think that quietness is often very inspiring.
Yael Cohen
I do not want the voice of the people shut out.
Huey Long
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
Vin Scully
Sometimes I find myself in this super-raw place onstage where I’m like, ‘Maybe that’s not the best thing. Maybe I need to shut down a little.’
Riki Lindhome
Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It’s unfortunate.
RuPaul
Don’t go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don’t shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.
Debbie Ford
All it is going to take to shut the power grid down to the entire Eastern half of the country is a bomb being placed at a key natural gas pipeline or on a major highway artery to the West.
Jim Justice
I know to shut up when I don’t know what I’m talking about.
Cree Summer
Colorado does not shut down. Colorado does not quit. Colorado does not break.
John Hickenlooper
The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It’s a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.
Shirley Manson
If you’re a Daniel Bryan fan, I’m all for that. The more people Daniel Bryan will bring into arenas, the better. The more people I bring in, the better. But when I’m talkin’, shut the hell up and let me talk.
Roman Reigns
I’m not one to keep my mouth shut!
Angelina Pivarnick
I do not know of a Chinese blogger who has gone to jail, but I know several who have had their blogs shut down. I also know some Chinese bloggers who have received threatening phone calls from police warning them to ‘be careful.’ In some cases, they stopped blogging for a while.
Rebecca MacKinnon
All Russian people know who I am. So I use this to the good because, you know, it’s really hard to shut my mouth off because… I’m too bright, and I’m too many years visible to everyone.
Ksenia Sobchak
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
Emile Zola
Especially in the food business, critics take very seriously how much power they have. They can shut a restaurant down.
Jon Favreau
Of course WWE is a huge part of me and I will never shut that door fully.
Summer Rae
For me, ‘The Kite Runner’ became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.
Marc Forster
I want to stay open. I don’t want to shut down the possibility of new ideas, new ways of seeing the world.
Lesley Sharp
You see another side of Draco when he’s with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn’t say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He’s sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.
Tom Felton
The moment eternal – just that and no more – When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Robert Browning
Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don’t sell out their friends.
Sandra Bullock
Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
Kristin Hersh