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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Keller

Dave has a moment when he's young where he tries to talk to his mother, who just shuts him down, ... From that point on, Dave had to create someone else; that's where his problems begin. That's the tragedy of his character: He's been hiding it for too long. He doesn't know himself.

Dennis Lehane

The marigold, whose courtier's face echoes the sun, and doth unlace her at his rise, at his full stop packs and shuts up her gaudy shop.

John Cleveland

Anytime like this, that's your main concern, that the store owner shuts off the emergency power for your pumps, where nothing comes out of the nozzle, so that (fire) doesn't get down into the tanks.

Marty Posey

Any time you have a disruption, you have a loss in (coal) production. But I don't think this will be an event that shuts down the coal industry.

Ian Synnott

She gets caught on 1-on-1 shots and she shuts them right down. She covers the 18 so well she's the best goalie I've ever coached.

Tyler Renaud

If that mill shuts down . . . There goes the town.

Tom Doak

This is a self-imposed imprisonment because she shuts herself away to write to try to make sense out of her life.

Doug Caskey

[The decision] essentially shuts down any competitor's add-on innovation that customers could enjoy with their legitimately purchased products, ... This decision will slow investment and development in that field.

Jason Schultz

At some point, and it varies from year to year, the asphalt plant shuts down. When it's cold, you can't lay asphalt. We want it done before the plants shut down. We intend to do everything we can to make that happen.

David Troyer

When someone comes to you and tells you she and her kids are alive because Shirley was in their school, it's indescribable. She takes her job very personally; it never shuts off with her.

Cheryl Anderson

Once you get in there and the cage door shuts, it's tunnel vision, you don't even hear anyone around you.

Aaron Vold

There's all kinds of things happening. It shuts out long weekends.

Jim Aumann

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

Olusegun Obasanjo

We are living in an America in which an Orthodox Jew was the ambassador to Cairo and kept a kosher home. America now, on Yom Kippur, semi-shuts down, including government, because so many of the administrative assistants are Jewish.

Arthur Hertzberg

John Young is our unsung hero. The kid shuts down everyone's best player. He is the best defender around. I am so proud of the kid. He does not get a lot of credit because he only scores seven points a game. Nobody sees what John Young does for us. He has done a fabulous job, that is why he is our captain.

Josh Hood

ADI realized we knew how to drive alarm companies to them. We're the only company that is a patented, UL-approved system that monitors for carbon monoxide and proactively shuts down the cause -- usually a faulty furnace.

Geoffrey Winters

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Dean Fryer

[But why does consciousness fade during deep sleep early in the night?] You cannot say that consciousness fades because the brain shuts off. That's not the case. Scientists have long known that the brain remains active while we sleep, ... So what could be responsible?

Giulio Tononi

The key for this team is Kristen Barry. She missed her first three shots. Last year she shuts down -- this year she wins the game.

Lou Wejnert

He set up a system during conferences where every justice, one by one, in order of seniority, is allowed to weigh in on a case, ... There is no free-for-all debate. The chief justice does not allow bickering. He shuts it down.

Jay Jorgensen

Man's ego itself is Maya. It is the veil that shuts the light.

Ramakrishna

Graham looks up It is a still look, and it shuts the door gently on the subject.

John Vinocur

We are an open and democratic society that makes no distinctions and shuts no one out.

Giorgos Voulgarakis

On Friday nights, the town shuts down for football.

Bob Lucas

After they scored that first goal, they were 100 percent positive and aggressive. Usually if [an opponent] scores first against us, the team shuts down. But I think they picked it up a notch and played harder, which helped.

Jami Finan