It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it’s my turn to leave.
It’s a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
PayPal came within an inch of being shut down by regulators when they started. The feds seizing the Dwolla account and stealing the money that is owned by Mt. Gox customers is more proof that Bitcoin is the superior payment system.
We are already overcrowded. There’s no more room, and we must shut the borders.
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
Too often, low-income Americans must choose between paying for medicine and having their heat shut off.
After ‘Memory Keeper’s Daughter,’ it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.
I’m very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
We don’t want the federal government to shut down. It is so inappropriate, and it is not respectful of the people that have sent us here to do our jobs.
There should be a law that you can’t shut down the government – that you don’t have that power.
It’s been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.
In older Hollywood movies, a character will make an entrance, close a door, light a cigarette, sit down, have a drink. In Jean-Luc’s movies, you were doing everything at once, and sometimes you wouldn’t shut the door all the way.
If the tax loop holes that allow tax avoidance were shut down, it would go some way to sorting out our finances, would it not?
I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I’m trying to learn my lesson.
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
I’m never going to sing the words, ‘I want to shut down the club,’ never, ever.
When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.
That’s the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You’ve got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson’s guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, ‘You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.’
If I want to calm down, I’ll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear – it’s lovely.
Understanding that capacity of knowing when to be charming, when to shut the hell up, when to be humble and when to basically disappear for your safety and survival – that’s the kind of conversation you’d have as a parent to your child, not only in 1940s America but in 2017.
I think it’s worth putting energy into affirmative action in terms of having diversity in positions of power because the door was shut for so long.
Remember a few years ago when Tiger said his glutes shut off? I know he wasn’t kidding because when I reach the top of my swing, like Tiger, I want to feel my right glute muscles firing.
Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.
I’ve never kept my mouth shut, especially as my industry is so misogynistic. I’ve got a reputation as a troublemaker.
In their rush to placate everyone and offend no one – and in particular to pander to Islam – the Left wants to shut down Christianity.
It’s very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
The trick to techno, as a connoisseur, is that you got to do two things: keep your hands down and your mouth shut.
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
‘The Luminaries’ is such a different book to ‘The Rehearsal.’ There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there’s a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there’s patterning.
My heart is drawn to the small, out-of-the-way things that I can’t help but to give my focus and attention and care, ’cause they shut off what hijacks my brain and help to tune out what can cause me pain.
If you look at a company like Uber, a company that so anti-establishment that cab companies are trying to find ways to shut it down, one could compare that to how Public Enemy and NWA went after then-modern society in hip hop.
I have my family life and I think it’s important to be able to shut the door and keep the door shut, and that keeps you grounded. You stay in reality.
The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There’s some attention to be paid to that, but I don’t think it’s everything.
Some may be different to others based off of situations that they experienced in their life, but there’s no amount of money that can get me to just shut up and dribble. No, I’m not going to do that.
I learned to keep my mouth shut, to keep my hands down, just try to put the ball in the net. That is the best answer.
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you’re not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I’m just more creative at night.
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offence.
If a door is shut, go up and wiggle it a little – don’t assume it’s locked.
I believe one shouldn’t shut oneself to any possibilities.
As ever, I caveat with saying that I don’t write about the factual content of my C.I.A. experience. Ever. People who are working hard to save lots of lives depend on me to keep my mouth shut.
And I will never, ever respond to anybody – man, woman, vegetable, or mineral – who tells me to keep my mouth shut.
When you’re in the position I’m in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. And I’d much rather be that person who lets people in.
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming.
I find it preferable not to have public opinions about anything. It’s good for me to shut up.
I used to just lose my temper and tell the audience to shut up.
When crazy comes knocking at the door, you gotta slam it shut.
I’m a quiet person’s nightmare – the only time I shut up is when I’m reading, because I’m a book geek.
In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It’s not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.
If I had to say something to Americans, being afraid and having fear, it’s okay to be fearful because that will make you strong; being afraid will shut you down.
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can – it’s a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn’t get fried.
If you don’t like your job, then change it by getting some better skills. Until then, shut up and get my burger with a smile, like in the commercials.
I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn’t tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn’t keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
You’re playing or you’re not playing. If you’re playing, so just shut up and play.
Terrorists are overjoyed when we shut down our freedoms and turn ourselves into a police state and when we retaliate, swatting the Middle East with useless bombs or rounding up the wrong suspects and locking them up without charge.
Where we are as a nation is due to having an openness to the people of the world. It’s incredibly important. I firmly believe that we cannot shut our borders to immigrants. I think a fair and just immigration policy is good for our country and good for our society.
