Shakey's Quotes

#1. A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

Wolfgang Puck

#2. I want to know who killed my father," Peter growled, shrugging off her fingers and pushing himself away from the wall to stand up straight. "If you think you can help me with that, then you are welcome to try.

Deborah Blake

#3. I'm on such a dangerous road, Milena. You're standing firmly near a tree, young, beautiful, your eyes subduing with their radiance the suffering world.

Franz Kafka

#4. We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#5. [She] went around with a beatific smile on her face that could be very irritating if you yourself weren't feeling beatific.

Kate Atkinson

#6. I was still new to this kind of adrenaline, the immediate release of anger instead of gnawing on it like overdue gum.

Catherine Lacey

#7. ... proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

Louisa May Alcott

#8. I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans.

Robert Klein

#9. Obstacles are given us in order to make our desire even stronger. The more a thing is hidden from man, the more he desires it, and the greater the chance he will one day discover it.

Chaim Potok

#10. Dignity is something that all human beings have in common. We are all (all of us who have attained the "age of reason," that is) subject to its demands, whatever place in society we may happen to occupy, and it is this that gives us our inalienable inner value.

Michael Rosen

#11. Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

Patrick Ness

#12. I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.

Richard Simmons

#13. I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

Gordon Lightfoot

#14. Thaddeus Aid is on shakey ground.

George Orwell

#15. The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

Dorothy Parker

#16. The best dresses are like t-shirts - you just put them on and forget about them.

Marc Jacobs