Shook Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Shook Quotes from famous authors such as Timothy Radcliffe, Dale Steyn, Ted Turner, John 5, Eddie Vedder. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

1
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
Timothy Radcliffe
2
When I made my one-day debut for South Africa I met some of the Aussies for the first time. We lost the game and when I shook the hands of players I just wanted them to look me in the eye and acknowledge I had competed.
Dale Steyn
3
Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
Ted Turner
4
Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it was his whole style – the look and what he did with the guitar.
John 5
5
I was around nine when a babysitter snuck ‘Who’s Next’ onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.
Eddie Vedder
6
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.
Conrad Veidt
7
When St-Pierre retired, it brought a lot of enthusiasm to the weight class, and things got shook up.
Robbie Lawler
8
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
Joe Frazier
9
I found Ricky Ponting the hardest to bowl to and it was a great pleasure to play against him as he was genuinely one of the best that’s ever played and a really tough competitor as well. He hated you when you were on the field but he always shook your hand and was the epitome of ‘play hard but play fair.’
Stuart Broad
10
I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, ‘I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.
James Randi
11
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.
Eliot Spitzer
12
The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I’m not happy because there’s nothing better for me than a world that everybody’s just trying to make each other laugh.
Matthew Perry
13
It was all about the ring. That’s where you got your brains shook and the money took.
Joe Frazier
14
I’ve always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn’t say, ‘Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.’ I’ve probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It’s just a different number on the tombstone.
Mehmet Oz
15
What – of all the incredible duets that I’ve been able to sing, you know, John Raitt was still the one that I just shook in my boots just standing next to him. I loved him so much.
Bonnie Raitt
16
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Sarah Vowell
17
I met Heinlein after ‘The Forever War’ had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he’d read it three times.
Joe Haldeman
18
I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.
Dean Martin
19
In Louisiana, you can drive when you’re 15 – you could get your driving permit. I remember, during driver’s ed, I fell asleep at the wheel one day. I was tired. The guy shook me and switched and said he was getting into the driver’s seat. I didn’t fail, so I guess you can fall asleep occasionally. It’s Louisiana.
Theo Von
20
I met my husband at the rehearsal of a play. We were introduced, and he shook my hand without looking at me and said perfunctorily, ‘Pleased to meet you.’
Rebecca Pidgeon
21
The biggest part of why I am where I am today is not only because people can relate to me and my story but because I hit the road and actually saw them face to face and shook their hands.
Logic
22
I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.
Kris Carr
23
At one point, I shook a tree full of fire ants on my head just to have some pain to distract me from my aching feet so that I could continue to walk.
Yossi Ghinsberg
24
I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists, and therefore I know there is a God.
Romeo Dallaire
25
Ten days that shook the world.
John Reed
26
He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
Clement Clarke Moore
27
Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’ shook me as a filmmaker.
Rajkumar Hirani
28
My early years as a ‘speaker’ involved note cards that shook like a leaf while I held them because I was so nervous.
Rachel Hollis
29
Truth, like a torch, the more it’s shook it shines.
William Hamilton
30
The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public’s confidence in corporate America.
Robert Mueller
31
I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and ‘Nip/Tuck’ shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.
Seth Gabel
32
You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.
Emilio Estevez
33
I shook up the world, I shook up the world.
Muhammad Ali
34
I’m always shook up and nervous and I’ve got the hospital record to prove it.
Harvey Pekar
35
Writing ‘Redeployment’ shook me in ways I never expected.
Phil Klay
36
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.
Joanna Southcott
37
I was ‘impressed’ by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as he opened his mouth and shook my hand, I felt comfortable. He made me feel like I was one of his friends.
Denis Villeneuve
38
I first came across the script for ‘Macbeth’ between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.
Ismail Kadare
39
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.
Ernst Toller
40
Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, ‘K.C., you did a great job. Don’t let anyone tell you different.’
Kalpana Chawla