Shaking Quotes
365 quotes by 313 authors
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Why are you still with me, Fry?" CyFi asks after one of his body-shaking seizures. "Any sane dude woulda taken off days ago. "Who says…
— Neal Shusterman
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A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads…
— Kenneth Grahame
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She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the…
— Richard Francis Burton
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Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the…
— Sherman Alexie
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He knows no other way but ugliness,†Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been…
— Melina Marchetta
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What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do:…
— Lorrie Moore
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you…
— Oscar Wilde
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He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn't they given him a sword? He was the stupid…
— Suzanne Collins
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Evie? Evie! Ouch!" Jack yanked his hand out of mine,shaking it and glaring at me. "I need these fingers later.
— Kiersten White
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Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all…
— Dorianne Laux
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Open your eyes, soldier,†Tatiana said fondly, caressing his face.“Are you hungry?†“I was hungry,†Alexander said. “But you fed me.†His body was shaking…
— Paullina Simons
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Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way…
— Laini Taylor
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The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would. Justine is running toward me,…
— Melina Marchetta
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The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may…
— Donald Miller
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There’s no grandfatherly fondness in me, There are no gray hairs in my soul! Shaking the world with my voice and grinning, I pass you…
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of…
— Karen White
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So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television and phones?" "Men's…
— Melina Marchetta
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I walk down the steps of the verandah towards her and with shaking hands she holds my face between them, sobbing, "Look at my beautiful…
— Melina Marchetta
Who Wrote These Shaking Quotes
313 authors contributed a total of 365 Shaking Quotes, led by these top contributors: