Shutting Quotes

"She has her own opinion. If people want to listen to it, that`s fine...I don`t believe in shutting anybody up." - (2000) about Dr. Laura Schlessinger`s views against homosexuality

I do my bit to improve the world but I think it`s very important to get things done on the quiet. 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 cheque in the right place and shutting up about it.

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.

They (Hunter) did a pretty good job of shutting down our guards. So we just started passing it to the post and burned them with 16 points in the paint.

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I`m relatively available, but not to live with.

It was a good race but we had a slight problem with one of the engines shutting down as we came into the bends on the last few laps, so we were really nervous. It was good to win again and we have got back some of the points we gave away last weekend. ... Because of the engine problem we had to keep going wide on the corners with Steve having to keep the revs up. We`ve had a few problems this weekend so I was a little nervous before the start of the race, but we got the result we needed.

We`re pushing back against the criminals by aggressively shutting down the labs and making it harder for the crooks to get the supplies they use to cook this toxic drug, ... Now we must concentrate on fighting meth trafficking as well.

This team has won a lot of games by scoring early. Our plan was not to let them score in the first 15 to 20 minutes. Our defense shutting them down took them out of their game plan.

Brewer did a great job of taking away our strength, which is our two inside kids. They did the best job so far this year of shutting those kids down.

It`s one thing to support the Wright Amendment. It`s another thing to support shutting down your home-district airport. What about the people who work at Dallas Love? What about the people who travel from Dallas Love? What about the companies that operate out of Dallas Love? Her decision smacks of heavy-handed government at its absolute worst.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

We expect the first wave of the epidemic to go for eight to 12 weeks; then there is usually a second peak - how are we going to exist in those eight weeks without shutting the whole society down is a difficult question.

Prices are high, but without those price increases we would not have seen the 20 percent decrease in industrial gas demand that has occurred over the past five years. One by one, industrial gas users are either shutting down or switching to substitute fuels.

The `global warming` lobby hopes to stop all dissent by shutting out, shouting down and intimidating any opposition.

The drug pipeline brought the problems of drug addiction, crime and violence from the busy streets of Detroit directly onto the quiet streets of Venango County, and today`s arrests are aimed at shutting off that pipeline,