Shaking It Quotes

• In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.

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  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom   Grace   Earth  

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• I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappointment in their lives, it's the sense of, let's shake this up. And no one is shaking it up as much as Trump.

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  Bob Woodward

  Disappointment   Thinking   People  

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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 warrior, wasn't he? His fingers dug in the leather bag and closed around the root beer can. Root beer! He yanked out the can shaking it with all his might. "Attack! Attack!" he yelled.

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  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid   Beer   Warrior  

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.

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• I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.

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  Alden Ehrenreich

  Roles   Muscles   Shaking It  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  264

• Evie? Evie! Ouch!" Jack yanked his hand out of mine,shaking it and glaring at me. "I need these fingers later.

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  Kiersten White

  Hands   Needs   Ouch  

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• The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes. It speaks of a fundamental placement in relation to the work, that of a voyager in the world coming upon a strange object. The reader reconstitutes the work by his active participation, by approaching the object, tapping it, shaking it, holding it to his ear to hear the roaring within. It is characteristic of the object that it does not declare itself all at once, in a rush of pleasant naïveté.

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  Donald Barthelme

  Eye   Men   Vets  

  "After Joyce (1964)". "Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme, p. 4, 1997.

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• under his dripping hair, he was as white as parchment, his hands clenched at his sides so tightly that they were shaking. It seemed clear that some terrible turmoil was ripping him apart from the inside out.

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  Cassandra Clare

  Hair   Hands   White  

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

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• We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

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  C. West Churchman

  Foundation   Who God Is   Overcoming Adversity  

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• Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation.

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  Shirley Manson

  People   Sometimes   Starbucks  

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