Shucks Quotes

#1. But as a matter of strict fact, did Agnes have any "maternal" in her? When she set her mouth that way, it was hard to see it. Oh shucks, all women had maternal instincts; science had proved that. Well, hadn't they?

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. When you bring an act into this town, you want to bring it in heavy. Don't waste any time with cheap shucks and misdemeanors. Go
straight for the jugular. Get right into felonies.

Hunter S. Thompson

#3. You're jest one person, an' they's a lot of other folks. You git to your proper place. I knowed people built theirself up with sin till they figgered they was big mean shucks in the sight a the Lord. You ain't big enough or mean enough to worry God much.

John Steinbeck

#4. You look amazing."
"Thank you. You look pretty good." Understatement.
"Oh this old thing? Shucks," he said.
"Dork."
"Goddess.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#5. She hasn't known many Southerners. That twang and aw-shucks about him
it's sort of exotic.

Tom Rachman

#6. I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently ... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

Aubrey Peeples

#7. Us colored folks is too envious of one 'nother. Dat's how come us don't git no further than us do. Us talks about de white man keepin' us down! Shucks! He don't have tuh. Us keeps our own selves down.

Zora Neale Hurston

#8. I just don't ever want to play the girlfriend. You know, the supporting character in the background who just sort of comes in and goes, "Oh, shucks." It's just a boring character.

Kristen Bell

#9. The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

Steven Pressfield

#10. I fight the grin that's trying to surface. For all his sweet words and aw shucks smiles, Tucker really is an alpha fucker. I don't know why that thrills me so much, but it does.

Elle Kennedy

#11. What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

Dennis Miller

#12. What a woman says doesn't amount to shucks. It's the way she says it - that's what counts.

Stephen Crane

#13. I'm not 'aw shucks'. Because I'm gnarly.

Charlie Sheen

#14. When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.

Andy Roddick

#15. I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant." If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.

Humphrey Bogart

#16. Dying
shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

Robert Penn Warren

#17. If there's age discrimination - and there may be - I've always felt that the person who discriminates is hurt more than the person being discriminated against, if the second person shucks it off and moves forward.

Marv Levy

#18. I may be a creature of the night," he wiggled the fingers of his free hand in the air in mock spookiness, "but I happen to enjoy running water and electricity." I snapped my fingers in an aw shucks gesture and said mournfully, "You've shattered all of my illusions.

Sara C. Roethle

#19. This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

Helen Oyeyemi

#20. So many people say they want a new life, but then they take the new one they get every morning for granted. Don't do this.

Marc D. Angel

#21. I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares.

William Bateson

#22. I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.

John Krasinski

#23. The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

Linda Tripp

#24. My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it's a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack, you know, a small single bed, which I had in basic SEAL training.

William H. McRaven

#25. Carry on! Carry on! Fight the good fight and true; Believe in you mission, greet life with a cheer;

Robert W. Service

#26. They deserve forgiveness. Everyone does.

Dana Reinhardt

#27. The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions.

Michael Lewis