Shook Quotes - page 2

Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name. (Rob Sheffield)
The parts I like, well..." He shook his head, with pursed lips. "They just don't have anything to do with me: somebody else wrote them, it seems, about things I may have thought about once. The parts I don't like--well, I can remember writing those, oh yeah, word by word by word. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this? View quote
Scott Westerfeld
You're evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. "Chaotic Neutral, sugar. View quote
Ernest Klein
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric. View quote
Osamu Dazai
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist. View quote
David Eddings
Time's a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. "The goon won. View quote
Jennifer Egan
Not a frog, I hope?” he asked...She shook her head. "No. And if it was I wouldn't kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he'd turn into a frog, but not the other way around. View quote
Eva Ibbotson
Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war. View quote
Ernst Toller
I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake. View quote
Kris Carr
Relax? he repeated incredulously. You're going to fight an armored knight with nothing more than a bow and you tell me to relax? I'll have one or two arrows as well, you know, Halt told him mildly, and Horace shook his head in disbelief. (John Flanagan)
Halt shook his head. Frankly, he'd seen sacks of potatoes that could sit a horse better than Erak. View quote
John Flanagan
I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?" Will shook his head. "Supper is important! View quote
John Flanagan
The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America. View quote
Robert Mueller
My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up. View quote
Bela Fleck
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. View quote
Conrad Veidt
Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears. View quote
Joanna Southcott
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. View quote
Timothy Radcliffe
Why should you shake hands with somebody who's keeping Americans in prison? I mean, what's the point? Neville Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler. View quote
John McCain
All day the heat had been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the West, blowing from the heart of the setting sun and from the ocean, which lay unseen, unheard behind the scrubby foothills. It shook the rusty fringes of palm-leaf and swelled the dry sounds of summer, the frog-voices, the grating cicadas, and the ever present pulse of music from the neighbouring native huts. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
He weren't no saint-but at jedgment I'd run my chance with Jim. 'Longside of some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shook hands with him. He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing- And went for it thar and then; And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard On a man that died for men. (John Hay)
Wong shook his head sadly. "I sometimes think that modern education is deliberately designed to handicap a boy.”. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The President's party arrived in three planes with thirty-fie reporters and photographers. As I shook hands with Mr. Truman, he remarked, "I've been a long time meeting you, General." I replied, "I hope it won't be so long next time." View quote
Douglas MacArthur
He took the imperial hand and shook it in the glad-to-see-you-but-keep-off English fashion. View quote
Frederick Rolfe
American [comedy] was always stronger because you had Lucille Ball, you had Carol Burnett, you had Lily Tomlin, Gilda Radner. I came from a country where we just had Benny Hill girls. You had to run around in a bikini basically in the '80s in Britain. Then I did a sketch show and Pamela Stevenson and then (Dawn) French and (Jennifer) Saunders just shook it all up. But I grew up thinking I could be a character actress. I didn't think I could go into comedy. View quote
Tracey Ullman