Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
For some, religion is the cement that seals shut their door on the world
I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
When an educated woman decides to shut up...she denies voice to many illiterate ones
One must say; be in charge of your fucking feelings and keep your mouth shut.
I love shutting my front door and being at home with just my dog and me. That's when I'm happiest.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.
Jackie Brown: Shut your raggedy-ass up, and sit the fuck down!
Herman Scobie: Now we wait. With our mouths shut. Alexander Dyle: [yawns] Sorry about that.
Oscar Shapeley: Well shut my big nasty mouth!
Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.
In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.
Yes, well”—he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose delicately—“the burner phone we had accidentally fell out of the car, and someone accidentally backed over it. Because someone was in a rush after she accidentally alerted some skip t...
There was too much opinion in this country, too many sob stories. Nobody wanted to put a lid on anything; everyone wanted to say it all, about everything. If you as much as said hello to someone on a train or a plane, you were in for the unexpurgated...
That was when they noticed that every musician on the stage was wearing mourning black. That was when they shut up. And when the conductor raised his arms, it was not a symphony that filled the cavernous space. It was the Song of Eyllwe. Then Song of...
Benjy Benjamin: [in a hospital in bandages and casts] It's all your fault. It's all your fault right from the beginning to the end. J. Algernon Hawthorne: You know, even for a policeman, your behavior was ruddy outrageous. Sylvester Marcus: Yeah, you...
[Sunday dinner at the Corleone home... ] Sonny: Niggers havin' a real good time up in Harlem... Carlo Rizzi: I knew that was going to happen as soon as they tasted the big money. Connie: Papa never talked about business in front of the kids. Carlo Ri...
