Just because it is Christmas doesn’t mean you should bottle all your feelings up. Mind you, sometimes being a good wife does mean knowing when to shut up.
If you don’t have the smoking gun, then it’s pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.
My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn’t offer me criticism because she knows I’d tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!
Chicago taught me when to talk, taught me when to shut up, taught me when to stay, taught me when to go. And really it all forms to make BJ the Chicago Kid.
Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
With the war and everything that’s going on, unless you’re Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!
My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that’s there. I want to get it all out.
It’s funny. I don’t really think of us as TV presenters. I think of TV presenters as responsible people who show children what to do with empty fairy liquid bottles. Not a couple of blokes who don’t mind telling kids to shut up.
Why would you want to shut down a nuclear plant, which requires at most about 1 square mile of land, to replace that power source with windmills, which would require 300 square miles of land to be paved over?
When I post anything at all on Instagram or Twitter, I get hundreds and hundreds of ‘shut up’ after I say anything. But it’s all out of love.
You get your dream job and, in my opinion, despite anything they might say about you professionally or personally, you shut up, and you just do the job – and enjoy it.
I hate jealousy so much that if I ever do feel it, I try to shut it down immediately, but it’s so hard.
Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.
I don’t want to shut down the government.
When I come off stage, I just shut up. I try as best I can not to use my voice at all. You know I love to talk, but I try when I come off stage to have the minimum amount of vocal interaction because I need at least a good 10 hours to just recover from my form of extreme singing.
My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
I’m trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I’m supposed to do.
Broadway needs to let go of any fear that it won’t succeed and take a knee. There’s this rhetoric about being grateful and happy that you’re getting paid for your art. We are told to put our own stuff aside, but doesn’t everyone have a job they should just shut up and do?
If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
I was a brand new senator in 2013. And the idiocy of Congress was to shut the government down for two weeks in October. And coming out of that, the pressure was put on the budget chair, Paul Ryan’s shoulders and Patty Murray. Conservative Wisconsin Republican, progressive Washington Democrat, come up with a budget deal.
I sometimes will be very shut off from everybody. I can be very pettish and sometimes not available when you need me. At those times, I’m very selfish and worrying about my own problems.
I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, ‘This is going to be a novelty for them.’ Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up.
The biggest thing to realize when you’re guarding great players is, look, they’re going to score – it’s hard to guard anyone one-on-one, straight-up and have them be shut out. You just want to try to make them work for their possessions.
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
We want our president to be a president and not threaten to shut down the government over a wall. To change the oppression that happens in this country, it has no place in the world, let alone America.
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
There’s no better feeling than knowing I’m going to break the guy next to me. His body will shut down, and I will keep eating. Then I will look out and see a crowd of happy people.
Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.
I knew what it was to be poor… my mother worried about putting food on the table. I knew what it was to feel excluded and shut out, but I also knew what it was to experience love and generosity.
When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
There are so many things that you’re supposed to conform to as an actress. Keep your mouth shut. Look pretty. Be a fashionista. I’m not stylish. I don’t want to become this character.
Cern’s colliders usually shut down for a winter break, because the cost of electricity increases as the temperature drops and the Swiss turn on their heaters and tuck into their fondue.
I plan on suing all of the Left wing terrorists and tech tyrants who are trying to shut me down simply because I am a Conservative Jewish woman who speaks truth about Islam.
John Cleese once told me he’d do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
I miss the common things, the things that used to really annoy me, like an alarm clock. The sound of your zipper as your fly is being pulled up so that you know it actually is up. The sound of the door as it closes, to know that it’s really shut.
A long time ago I learned how to shut my mouth, listen to my coaches and put trust in my coaches.
Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I’m doing. You scream.
When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.
I put the movie days totally behind me… It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.
Keep your religion in your house. Shut off the loudspeakers Masjids. Our Aarti does not trouble, why should Namaaz harass others?
You can shut down our economy and the effect on climate change, it will be nothing.
When I’m on the pitch, I’m happy. I can shut everything else out.
On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you’re smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it’s making noise.
The defenders make me very angry. They are kicking, or they are pinching or they say things to me that I don’t like. They try to do everything to take me out of the game. I learned to keep my mouth shut, to keep my hands down, just try to put the ball in the net. This is the best answer.
Im a night owl so I tend to do a lot of my disconnecting past midnight. I love the feeling when the whole world has shut down for the day Im left to think and unwind without any interruptions.
Trust me: I was the most bullish on ‘Deadpool.’ When I was day one on the set, I said, ‘This is going to open at $75 million,’ and they all said, ‘Shut up, Liefeld; you’re jinxing us.’
There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it’s not going to happen.
I’m not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.
There’s one way to shut Donald Trump down, and that is don’t give him the oxygen. And the oxygen comes from the clicks, the ‘likes,’ the shock, discussions.
