Top 217 Shutting Quotes & Sayings

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.

A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

The shutting out or boycotting of selected media cannot take place in Austria.

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.

I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

Cutting VAT is a classic case of shutting the stable door, when the horse has already galloped a couple of furlongs down the road.

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

I think the key to improv is always listening. It's embracing. It's positivity. It's hearing things and not shutting them down.

I think it's important to have conversation about things instead of shutting things down.

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.

We need to ban this whole culture of shutting down and banning things.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

You're not tapping into the widest possible pool of talent if you're shutting some people out of particular careers.

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

The consequence of shutting down the government was not healthy.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines

Try and withhold your judgment, because as soon as you think you know something, you're shutting down.

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

When we have agencies like EPA shutting down businesses, I don't trust them at all.

I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can't.

Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

When police are shutting down cameras, it is a sign that they know the truth is not going to be kind to them.

I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.

Bisping, he's a piece of work. The guy likes to run his mouth. I look forward to shutting it.

Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

Frankly, no issue is worth shutting down the government and denying pay to those committed to public service.

I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.

I have trouble falling asleep. I have trouble shutting my mind off.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. Don't give in to such love: despise it always.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them.

We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger.

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.

I've always had these morals I've sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and stuff. I was vegetarian. I was all about shutting things out.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.

I love shutting my front door and being at home with just my dog and me. That's when I'm happiest.

How many examples do we have of these bodies [of the state] set up to eliminate a problem, actually eliminating it, shutting down their operations and going home?

Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.

Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.

Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.

The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.

The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation with Russia.