A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas Fuller

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.
Martha Griffiths

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you'd do when you were drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!
Charles Scribner, Jr.

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.
William Scranton

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.
Billy Sherwood

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

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.
Janice Dickinson

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.
Nizar Qabbani

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
Kristin Hersh

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.
Stephen Harper

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
Zhuangzi

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!
Ron White

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
Richard King

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf

Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.
Cynthia McKinney

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.
Phil Donahue

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.
Ken Hill

Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
T. Berry Brazelton

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
Abu Bakr