Shaking Quotes - Page 6

• The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Stars, Two, Three

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?

  David Hockney

  Believe, Mean, Hands

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Morning, Believe, Mean

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• Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

  Juvenal

  Secret, Executioners, Scourge

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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, and I can tell by the look on her face that she's found out about the musical, too. I sigh, shaking my head. "I have to give Justine a lesson in holding back," I tell him. "She's just way too enthusiastic". She grabs my arms in excitement. "We're doing Les Mis." I scream hysterically, clutching her as we jump up and down.

  Melina Marchetta

  Running, Eye, Years

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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 not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  Donald Miller

  Falling In Love, Teaching, Believe

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• No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Dark, Thinking

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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 her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

  Karen White

  Hammers, Fists, Able

  Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.238, Penguin

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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 business. Bit confidential," Griggs says patronisingly. "Wow, wish I were you," Ben says, shaking his head with mock regret. "All I'll be doing tonight is hanging out in Taylor's bedroom, lying on her bed, sharing my earphones with her, hoping she won't hog all the room because it's such a tiny space.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girlfriend, Regret, Lying

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• There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Song, Night, Men

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• Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

  Charles Lamb

  Faith, Mistake, Dark

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• His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Book, Hands, Feelings

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• He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.

  Richard Matheson

  Book, Men, Mind

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• I kicked off my shoes and pulled his hand away from the wheel so I could straddle his lap and hold him. His grip on me was excruciatingly tight, but I didn't complain. We were on an insanely busy street, with endless cars rumbling past on one side and a crush of pedestrians on the other, but neither of us cared. He was shaking violently, as if he were sobbing uncontrollably, but he made no sound and shed no tears. The sky cried for him, the rain coming down hard and angry, steaming off the ground.

  Sylvia Day

  Crush, Rain, Past

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.499, Penguin

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• I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.

  Lester Bangs

  Reading, Book, Writing

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• If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”

  A. J. Jacobs

  Coffee, Self, Guy

  A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• That last rep where you're trying as hard as you can and you barely make it!
  That is what turns on the growth mechanism in your body.
  That last almost impossible rep where you're bearing your teeth, you're shaking all over, you need assistance!
  That rep is very special, that rep is very different. There's something special going on inside your body when that happens.

  Mike Mentzer

  Over You, Growth, Special

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• When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Mean Girls, Beautiful, Sports

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• Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.

  L.P. Hartley

  New York, Views, Romance

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• There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with its empty worship, its market-driven superficiality, and its trivial thought. It is a breeze blowing toward better, deeper, more honest things. I suspect that it is the Holy Spirit who is blowing, that this is his breeze, and that these leaves that are shaking are the signs of better things to come within an evangelical faith that is thus being reformed. Let us all pray that it is so!

  David F. Wells

  World, Honest, Spirit

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• I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

  Nora Ephron

  People, Laughing, Movement

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• I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

  Ethel Waters

  Black History, Black, Depends

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• The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.

  H. R. Giger

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• She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

  Jane Austen

  Sweet, Time, Autumn

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• If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.

  John Gierach

  Fishing, People, Away From You

  John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.405, Simon and Schuster

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