#shut

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. ↗

— Peter Welch

#best #best way #brother #father #found

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#break #day #either #even #feared

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

— Ken Hill

#body #down #fuel #shut #wants

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#door #every #excluded #face #henry

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. ↗

— David Hockney

#fraction #open #photographs #scrutiny #second

They googled Hulk Hogan and there were 4,000 different websites and one guy was making like two and a half million dollars, three million dollars a year just selling my merchandise. We had to shut him down but he was making some serious money just selling my stuff. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#dollars #down #guy #had #half

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#between #came #deal #did #done

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. ↗

— Rachel Hunter

#anybody #boy #dumped #him #his

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#contact #never #off #only #quarters

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#i #i wish #just #people #shut