Shakes Quotes

• Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn't have given you maracas if he didn't want you to shake 'em.

  

  Cynthia Rhodes Animotion
  • Want
  • Dancing
  • Given

• There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Disappointment
  • Rely

• I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfort

• Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Brain
  • Nerves
  • Shakes

• When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is going to read that with a viciousness, because he knows where you didn't work on it. He's going to shake it and really aim for that jugular. So you are going to polish, and revise, and rewrite, and cut out, and shape it, so that your enemy has no place to grip it. That's how you revise.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Enemy
  • Cutting
  • Imagine

• If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • Photography
  • Familiar

• Don’t shake…unless you’re ready to get shook!

  

  Kimberly Michelle Pate
  • Ready
  • Shakes

• Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Path
  • Delay
  • Incorporate

• When I see my opponent, I begin to shake uncontrollably. Once he hits me, I think to myself, you just hit Wanderlei Silva, how dare you hit Wanderlei Silva. Then I try to kill them.

  

  Wanderlei Silva
  • Thinking
  • Opponents
  • Shakes

• Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Trying
  • Hands
  • Steps

• It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Members
  • Honorable
  • Shakes

• Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Surprise
  • Spoil
  • Shakes

• This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Night
  • Baby
  • Cries

• Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

  

  Confucius
  • Confidence
  • Politician
  • Shakes

• Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Up
  • God
  • Night

• The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter.

  

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Rain
  • Storm
  • Defiance

• The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Stop
  • Drink
  • Shakes

• Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

  

  William Billings
  • Iron
  • Tyrants
  • Shakes

• O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Stars
  • Flesh

• Trash can!” Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I’d eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn’t actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.

  

  Karen Chance
  • Times
  • Surprise
  • Pizza

• It's hard... to shake off something that's already under your skin.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Hard
  • Skins
  • Shakes

• An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.

  

  William Bolitho
  • Reason
  • Prayer
  • Adventure

• I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Intention
  • Mouths
  • Tricks

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