From "Lady In Waiting" in the anthology The Morgue : Now I have yet to meet the corpse could hold up its end of a conversation, so at most I might whistle while fixin’ one up ‘stead of engagin’ myself in any small talk that’s goin’ to be so...
Suddenly reminded, she clapped a hand over her mouth. "Oh—Simon!" "No, I'm Jace," said Jace patiently. "Simon is the weaselly little one with the bad haircut and dismal fashion sense." "Oh, shut up," she replied, but it was more automatic than hear...
Matt Kowalski: Listen, do you wanna go back, or do you wanna stay here? I get it. It's nice up here. You can just shut down all the systems, turn out all the lights, and just close your eyes and tune out everyone. There's nobody up here that can hurt...
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.
Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.
The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
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!
You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.
I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.
It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt
The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.
Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
