Shake Quotes
926 Shake quotes by 732 unique authors
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Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here,…
— Augusten Burroughs
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People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's…
— John le Carre
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And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake…
— Dave Eggers
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air…
— C.S. Lewis
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He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands…
— J D Salinger
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How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every…
— Jodi Picoult
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I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself…
— Anne Frank
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I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
— C.S. Lewis
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The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years,…
— Ray Bradbury
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But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out of my cloak…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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So softly Lizzy has to lean over to hear me, I say, 'I can't face the world until I know why I'm here.' You're kidding…
— Wendy Mass
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All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people who should know…
— Stephen Hunt
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Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it…
— Jason Mraz
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…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off…
— Gilbert Sorrentino
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Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what…
— Joss Whedon
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Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.
— Brian Jacques
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Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit…
— Janette Rallison
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There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not…
— Richard Dawkins
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Your chances of getting hit by lighting go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!!
— Johnny Carson
Who Wrote These Shake Quotes
732 authors contributed a total of 926 Shake Quotes, led by these top contributors: