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Quotes About Shaking

What sound was that? I turn away, into the shaking room. What was that sound that came in on the dark? What is this maze of light it leaves us in? What is this stance we take, To turn away and then turn back? What did we hear? It was the breath we took when we first met. Listen. It is here.
~ Harold Pinter
It was M-m-moe and Shorty," I said. "Damn, I can't stop shaking." "Adrenaline burn-off," Ranger said. "It's normal." "Why aren't you sh-sh-shaking?" "I'm not normal.
~ Janet Evanovich
His heartbeat seemed to be shaking him apart, like the impacts of a wrecking ball on an old building.
~ Tim Powers
Faukman hung up the phone, shaking his head in disbelief. Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.   Inside
~ Dan Brown
Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorized as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.
~ Dan Simmons
In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
The senator got so tired on the campaign trail that he started kissing hands and shaking babies.
~ letterman david iv
Spoiling my ballot paper is the only way I can see of stripping the system of legitimacy, shaking it up, and reforming it so that it favours citizens.
~ Denise Dresser
Shaking my head, unable to think clearly, I mouthed the same word over and over: "Fire! Fire! Fire!" I was still mouthing it when they lifted me onto a stretcher and carted me from the Hall.
~ Darren Shan
Tana," Aidan said as soon as he saw her. "Tana, they're going to come in as soon as it's dark. They told us." He looked pale and frantic, worse than she remembered him looking when she'd left. "We're going to die, Tana." "Condamné à mort," a voice rasped from the other side of the door. She could hear the creatures whispering to one another in the hall, shifting hungrily, waiting for the sun to set. Her hands shook.
~ Holly Black
Coward that I am, I flee. My heart thundering, my hands shaking. But I can't pretend that I don't like the sound of him screaming my name.
~ Holly Black
It's—it's a variable." Kaplan was shaking, white-lipped and pale. "Something from which no inference can be made. The man from the past. The machines can't deal with him. The variable man!
~ Philip K. Dick
The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean.
~ Jim Butcher
Worry is like sitting on a rocking chair, shaking your inner self. It is something taking out your very essentials and does not get you anywhere. Stop worrying. It is using your imagination to create situation you don't want
~ Anil Sinha
It was very, very peaceful, and all of a sudden I found myself shaking so hard that I had to sit down on the stream bank. Anytime. It could happen anytime, and just this fast. I wasn't sure which seemed most unreal; the bear's attack, or this, the soft summer night, alive with promise. I rested my head on my knees, letting the sickness, the residue of shock, drain away.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Blake sighed, shaking his head. "Abandon all logic, ye men who enter where women dwell.
~ Unknown
With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves...
~ Mike Mignola
He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.
~ Job 9:6
Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
~ Isaiah 10:32
Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,
~ Isaiah 22:17
The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
~ Isaiah 24:19
“Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth:
~ Haggai 2:21