Quaked Quotes

#1. When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit ... I wondered if I was up to the job. I wondered if I could do the campaign justice.

Lee Cowan

#2. The lights of Knoxville quaked in a faint penumbra to the west as must the ruins of many an older city seen by herders in the hills, by barbaric tribesmen shuffling along the roads.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open. But no hand was there, and it opened no more.

Charles Dickens

#4. When the mountain quaked
Like an elbow's nudge
Like a shout that something is wrong
The people awoke and
Knew, yes, knew, that bandits had come

Shannon Hale

#5. The light in his eyes was like the sun rising. My knees trembled and my heart quaked. It was powerful and beautiful and perfect.

Kylie Scott

#6. Ain't I your man?" he persisted.
"Yeah, Ellis, you're my man." Her lips quaked as she said it.

Tracy Winegar

#7. All night sheetlightning quaked sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the sudden skyline stark and black and livid like a land of some other order out there whose true geology was not stone but fear.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time - including life - and that doesn't mean it's special.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#9. He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.

Pete Townshend

#10. Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

Skeet Ulrich

#11. There is nothing very remarkable about
being immortal; with the exception of mankind,
all creatures are immortal, for they know
nothing of death. What is divine, terrible, and
incomprehensible is to know oneself immortal.

Jorge Luis Borges

#12. I sometimes wonder if I'm built from old videotape. I feel archaic, worn from overuse and increasingly obscure. One day I'll get caught up in the grinding wheels of my own life and unravel.

David Thomas Moore

#13. The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

Patsy Cline

#14. Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

Jerry Brown

#15. Sometimes is not in the battle field where truth and courage only shows. You can win in any place with the help of your courage.

Auliq Ice

#16. In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.

Christopher Alexander

#17. I really don't care what I look like as long as it fits with the thing I'm working on.

Michael Welch

#18. Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.

Aldous Huxley

#19. Don't fall into the tap of infinite stupidity.

Jeff Kent