Shutting Quotations

Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with a lot of commercial success, has.

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

I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

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

We applaud such efforts, but I don't think shutting one market down will solve all the problems we are facing.

We respect the demonstrators' right to protest, but who wins by shutting down discussion of some of the world's most pressing problems?

When we came out at halftime, that's all we were thinking about shutting these guys out. It was like we were seven points down, that's the mentality we tried to take into the second half.

When we cut the lead down to eight, we felt pretty lucky. Then they hit three quick baskets. That was kind of the door shutting on us.

We both see eye to eye on things and that's always a plus. I'll take a 'maybe' over a 'no' any day. The door's still open, it's not like I'm just shutting the door on Toronto.

Unless my arm falls off, I'm not planning on getting this close to 300 wins and shutting it down.

United shutting down doesn't necessarily fix the problem for other airlines, but it helps a lot. It does divert a fair amount of revenue to other airlines -- United carries about 17 percent of the nation's traffic.

We're filing two months' of cases in a week. Everyone is shutting down and not taking more appointments. It's not like anything you can even imagine.

We're focused on keeping the House open, not shutting it down, ... It's the opposition that seems to be focused on shutting it down and dragging Canadians back to the polls.

With the serious energy problems we will face this winter, what DOE is proposing is like shutting down the FEMA regional offices before the next hurricane. These are the extension agents of energy efficiency, and we should be adding to rather than cutting their ranks.

We knew what they were going to bring, but the hard part was trying to take away what they wanted to do. Even when we got in transition, they did a good job of shutting us off when we got there.

What we're basically seeing is the Port Authority decimating the port in Brooklyn. This is part of the pattern of them shutting down the port.

What we need to do is hit Bobby Ryan a little more. He's a tough guy and he's trying to get through the neutral zone a little too easily. Maybe we need a good open-ice hit or a few more hits to slow him down. We do that, maybe we do a better job of shutting him down.

We held them until the fourth, when they loaded the bases off a hit and two errors. We ended up shutting them down. We opened up the sixth-inning batting all the way around with eight hits and scoring 14 runs.

We've shut everything down. We evacuated all our workers from the offshore platforms in the Gulf, shutting in production. We have shut down operations at our Texas City refinery.

We're shutting people down. We just can't put the ball in the end zone.

We're confident right now that the secondary is gonna do a good job shutting down the pass. Having Jaren back feels good. He's a guy we have a lot of confidence in.

Let me comment on this vote. I'm doing this because of what Jack (Price) said about shutting the borough down. I don't agree with some of the stuff in this budget. I won't get into it now, but I can't see the borough shutting down. I have some questions about this budget and I'll be voicing them.

So if anybody needed a reminder, this is it, that the Syrian government should take immediate steps to crack down on this group and to inhibit its activities by shutting down Islamic Jihad offices and expelling its personnel.

Some might take exception to the notion that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. But those of us gathered here today know that with American ingenuity we can achieve the reductions in the Clean Power Act without shutting out the lights,

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Shutting the door on schools that are doing a great job educating the children of military families doesn't make any financial or common sense.

Shutting down the gun loophole will not solve all of the problem, but it is at least something we can do

Shutting down illegal file swapping networks like Elite Torrents is an essential part of our fight to stop movie thieves from stealing copyrighted materials.

Shutting down Dee Brown was huge. We trailed him all night. We never wanted him to get loose on us.

Shutting down a program like this really sends a bad message. It makes it look like Truman doesn't care about preschool education and we don't think it's important. And of course, we do.

Shutting down a design team like that will mean that dozens of people, if not hundreds of people, will either be sent away or they will be distributed to other programs.

Shutting things down for two or three days is not that costly.

She's a great shooter, but she played great defense, too. She played the top of our triangle-and-two defense and was critical in shutting down their guards.

She might have been just a little bit frustrated. That's something that this school prides itself on, shutting down the big players.

McNaughton is a handful. I've got one of the best defensive centers in the country and I hope he doesn't get in any kind of foul trouble. He relishes shutting someone down. He's going to make McNaughton earn every basket. We don't want him to shoot a high percentage -- that's our goal.

McCain has always been a conservative, anti-abortion, pro-military Republican who took more moderate positions on a few key issues. If he runs, he could well win the White House, shutting out the Democrats for the third straight election. And that is rallying the pundits of the left.

My goal is to play in the season, not Spring Training games. It would be nice to get out there and show them what I can do. But in the meantime I need to get myself ready for Opening Day and get out there playing, that's the biggest thing. I'm just resting right now, just doing all the rehab stuff, just kind of shutting baseball down a little bit.

If there were something that were shutting down companies, of course it is vital that our company continues to run and produce vaccine.

But we did get the general sense that they were either shutting down, facing a major downsizing in operations, or being consolidated.

But the end result is, I think we should end up shutting it down,

I'm a lobbyist, and I have no interest in shutting down lobbying.

If a truck bomb came through the gate, it would need to go through several layers to get to a sensitive site. But the fact that the process folks in the middle of the plant see that happening immediately, they take precious time to take action and begin shutting the plant down to avoid a catastrophic event.

For those refineries that are operating, it's the difference between running and shutting down.

He did a nice job shutting them down. It was a good win.

He did a good job of coming in and shutting us down and giving them a chance to fight back.

He is a handful. Chris has played very well in most of their big games. I feel in some ways that I've got one of the best defensive centers in the country in my team in Steven Hill. I know Chris is going to be hard to stop, but he's going to face a kid that relishes defense, relishes shot blocking, relishes shutting somebody down. And if he (Chris) does well, it's going to be because he earned it.

Her kidneys are shutting down. They are doing this surgery to save the kidneys and give the doctors time to find out what is wrong.

Hopefully we get way over what we have 150 percent would be great farmers wouldn't worry about the water no talk about shutting off irrigation we really need the water so hopefully it'll be a good year.

We have to be careful in shutting down public records.

He was a workhorse, on both sides of the football. He ran the ball hard, and was a focal point, shutting down the field at middle linebacker. Missing Renner makes him the featured back. Having him and Mark Wright as the one-two punch, that's still a pretty solid rushing attack.

It can help protect the market in times of crisis. Instead of shutting down all trade, it helps you respond to the situation at hand.

It also has the effect of shutting down a service in a similar fashion to what occurred with Napster a couple of years ago and that has the potential to be good for record industry revenues.

I thought David pitched pretty well for his first conference outing. Brad and Daniel did a good job of shutting the door once we put them into the game. We need to come out and play well tomorrow so we can end this series on a good note.

It is going to take a team effort, not only worrying about shutting down Davenport but also containing those guards. We will have to work on that.

I thought we did fairly well on defense and played a strong transition game. They have some tough girls and we did a good job shutting them down.

I thought we could have been a little more aggressive. But all the credit goes to them for shutting us down the last couple of games.

I thought we came out attacking and shutting them down, trying not to give them the confidence that they would have to be looking for on the road.

I think we've got the caliber of kids that can step it up, and, even if they are shutting Vanessa down, scoring she does a nice job with the ball, distributing it to her teammates and running off our sets. The other kids can step up in those situations. I hope so, anyway.

I was able to strike those hitters out like that after my team scored five runs in the top of the seventh and I just thought about shutting them out and that strong will really worked.

Last time we didn't do a very good job of shutting those (other) girls down.

Langhorne pretty much had her way. We are what we are in terms of our size. We're not talking about shutting her down.

Our biggest concern after one game is our pass defense. We rallied to the ball well, but we have to do a better job of shutting down the short stuff.

Our biggest concern after one game is our pass defense, ... We rallied to the ball well, but we have to do a better job of shutting down the short stuff.

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

I was falling off the mound a little bit. I was inconsistent. One hitter, I'd hit my spots. Then, suddenly, I'd walk a guy. As a staff, we've got to work on shutting down the other team after the offense puts up some runs.

It feels great. I mean, the last time they did a great job of shutting me down, but this time we made some corrections and it showed out on the field, ... We just knew we had to go out there and do it. We knew if we didn't give 110 percent, that we were going to get killed. And it came down to who wanted it more.

I think our team focus was much better this time. When they made a run, we stayed calm. And we did a lot better job of shutting them down inside.

I think she was dropped off but we don't know by who. Her story is really inconsistent. We are trying to get information out of her but she's shutting down.

The ambition of the mayor to get into the heart of the community is quite laudable. However, shutting off streets will do the exact opposite. If you have no way to get to Main Plaza, you have no reason to go there.

That's been good for me. I just do my best at shutting them down and my teammates are all doing their jobs.

We can play a big role in shutting that offense down. We need to go on 8-, 10-, 12-play drives. We're all in good enough shape to do that. We just have to make it happen.

We really take pride in shutting people down. That's so important, especially in the playoffs. You can't let guys get off and hurt you.

We don't have a long record of going out here shutting businesses down unless we absolutely have to and most of it's complaint-driven and the public is going to let you know if a business is in bad shape and I think that was the case with this business.

We have started shutting down our Texas City refinery this morning and expect it to be completely shut by later today.

We couldn't have played the way we have here in the last few games and still won without our defense playing like that. They're really shutting it down over there. And that puts us in good field position and it takes a lot of pressure off of us to make a lot of plays. Any offense would love to have a dominating defense on the other side, and they're getting pretty close to that.

We played really well. We made one mistake in the first half and it cost us. We missed an early penalty kick that could have made the game a little different. I have to give credit to Magnolia for finding the net and for shutting us out.

We had ample opportunity to score. But River Valley was almost perfect in the field, shutting down rally after rally with outstanding defensive effort.

We've got seven kids averaging between 8.4 and 16. That's a good indication that they know how to give the ball up and spread it around. We're not the kind of team you can shut down by shutting down one player.

We hadn't been playing defense the way I told them we were capable of, either. Just shutting teams down; I'm still trying to build that in this group.

Yeah, I wanted to put that all behind me, ... I was shutting the book on all that stuff.

We are not shutting down all our projects while we wait for an answer.

We had to play catch-up all night, and they did a good job of shutting down all of us offensively. We didn't get many chances.

Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.

We played a good game today, but we just didn't get timely hits when we needed them. Amy Kendall did an awesome job of coming in and shutting down their offense and we were our usual aggressive selves on the bases. We played well, but it just didn't work out today.

We didn't really do a good job of shutting down anybody today.

We're literally in a meeting going over our plans, keeping track of things, when we got word on Tuesday that CNN was reporting they had been hit. At the time, we knew a high-profile target was reporting they had been hit and they didn't know what it was. Their computers were shutting down and restarting,

Tinkering with it is tantamount to shutting down the regulation, Are you indicating that there will be no cooperation from DHEC if we don't pass it?

The decision was made to proceed speedily and appropriately to bring UU4 down, weighed against the alternative of shutting down multiple units, creating significant other risks,

We like going into an away stadium and establishing that as our home. Nothing's better than going into an away stadium and shutting up 80,000 people.

We completed the process of shutting our operations down as it became clear that this is a very severe storm heading towards us.

We rotate shutting down (the plants) from year to year. We ran a shorter cycle for Indian Point 2 this time so that both plants are now done in the spring.

We knew she was going to get her points. I don't think you can focus on shutting her down. I would have been happy if she'd gotten 20 and we did what we did what we needed to do the rest of the way. Unfortunately, we gave them a lot of second opportunities. That was the difference in the ball game.

We're not in the business of shutting people off. The people we're most concerned about are not those that can't pay, it's those that can afford to but don't,

We had a tough time shutting down their offense. And we missed a lot of foul shots the first three quarters. When you do that it affects your offensive execution.

When we succeed at shutting auctions down on eBay, they go somewhere else.

We seemed to put together all facets of the game today. Our pitchers did a nice job shutting down a very potent Southern Utah offense.

We've been looking at the Biosphere and been trying to integrate. There's probably no way of making those building code requirements work, so we're probably going to be shutting that down. If there's anything we can save and utilize, we'll save it.

There is nothing the Democratic leaders can do. It's the Democratic activists who are whining and complaining who could help themselves by shutting their mouths. They're distracting attention away from what the election will be and should be about - the president and Congress. They're just giving the press something to write about.