#shut

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#alarm #cause #cultures #deeper #fire

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look. ↗

— Kenneth Williams

#entertain #found #got #i #look

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! ↗

— Robbie Williams

#best #everything #going #keep #me

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable. ↗

— Steve Womack

#constituents #did #down #government #here

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking. ↗

— James Wolcott

#shut #shut up #sure #sure way #talking

I let the front door slam shut behind me and the fly screen rattle. It was as if each door was kicking me out of the old life I'd lived in that house. I was being thrown out into the world, new. The broken, leaning gate creaked open, let me out, and I gently placed it shut. I was gone, and from down the street, maybe fifty yards away, I looked back for a second at the house where I lived. It wasn't the same any more. It never would be. I kept walking. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#into-the-world #leave-home #old-life #slam-shut #thrown-out

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do. ↗

— George Jones

#life

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going. ↗

— Garry Marshall

#edit #everybody #front #genius #going

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others. ↗

— Paul Martin

#canada #canadians #discrimination #effort #encounter

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

#average #being #citizens #few #gets