Shakedown Quotes

#1. I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting 'Shakedown,' a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me.

Gilbert Gottfried

#2. Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

Anthony Anderson

#3. Frank, this case is a publicity stunt and a shakedown. My clients did nothing illegal, and you and I both know I'll have no problem proving that to a jury. So there's no reason to discuss your ridiculous settlement offer any further. Call me when somebody sees a penis.

Julie James

#4. Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.

Elizabeth Peters

#5. We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

John Perry Barlow

#6. Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.

Michael Connelly

#7. Children put everything in perspective, they remind you of what's important, you see the world anew through there eyes.

Priscilla Gilman

#8. The author observes the shift now that children are not a source of labor for the family, that they have gone from employees of the parents to the bosses of the parents.

Jennifer Senior

#9. I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#10. There's always one teacher you had a crush on; for me, it's my wife's aerobics instructor.

Brian Kiley

#11. As if this was normal.
As if nothing had happened during the night.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#12. Sweetheart, I remember every second from the first moment I laid eyes on you and I've been trying to get my world upright ever since.

Tammy L. Gray

#13. How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.

Veronica Roth

#14. But in the time-honored manner of most human males, he allowed his eyeballs to swivel her way so that he could check her out, then turned his head so that he could check her out better

Neal Stephenson

#15. God transforms us one area at a time.

Judah Smith

#16. I like cooking, but I don't think I could be a chef. Everyone from the ground up does terrible hours, whether you've just walked in off the street and you've got no experience, to whether you're the head chef. You can work 14 or 15-hour days. It's really, really intense.

James McAvoy