#shut

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#bad time #because #been #child #children

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#am #completely #door #focus #front

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#achieved #cause #celebrity #check #death

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open. ↗

— Kieran Culkin

#eyes #i #keep #open #shut

I shut my eyes in order to see. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#i #order #see #shut

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

— Martha Griffiths

#human #i #rights #same #shut

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#among #been #charles #cities #days

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. ↗

— Helen Keller

#awkwardness #barrier #book #discourses #disenfranchised

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away. ↗

— Peter Tork

#away #disco #heavy #heavy metal #life

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut! ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#box #clicking #clicks #endless #experienced