Shake

Famous quotes containing the word shake:

    “In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don’t fall out they let them live another year.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    “No gray hairs streak my soul,
    no grandfatherly fondness there!
    I shake the world with the might of my voice,
    and walk—handsome,
    twentytwoyearold.”
    —Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)

    “Assemble, first, all casual bits and scraps
    That may shake down into a world perhaps;
    People this world, by chance created so,
    With random persons whom you do not know—”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)