Shakes Quotes
783 quotes by 631 authors
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She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a…
— Gregory Maguire
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In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake…
— Ray Bradbury
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Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my…
— Jodi Picoult
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Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news.…
— Joss Whedon
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a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just…
— Shulamith Firestone
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Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself…
— Douglas Coupland
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What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us…
— Albert Schweitzer
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And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to…
— Mariama Bâ
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Though I have to admit, I had a good laugh when I realized you thought I was a bloodsucker." He smiles. "Oh, well excuse me.…
— Alyson Noel
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I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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Shake the hand that feeds you.
— Michael Pollan
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Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
— Terry Pratchett
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A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor…
— Azar Nafisi
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Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and…
— Rob Bell
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No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.
— Toni Morrison
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If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or…
— Cassandra Clare
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Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.
— Mike Mignola
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Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like…
— Haruki Murakami
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Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping...
— John Lennon
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I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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