Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.
Francine Busby

Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.
Ricky Gervais

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
Jean Racine

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
William Shakespeare

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.
Saskya Pandita

Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
Naomi Watts

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
Frank Lautenberg

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.
Tracey Gold

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.
Olusegun Obasanjo

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
Richie Benaud

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
Paddy Ashdown

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life.
Stijn Streuvels

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
Marvin Olasky

Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.
Roger Angell

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
Aristophanes

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.
Marty Meehan

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
J. B. Yeats