The Word Shaker Quotes

#1. But as they walked on, they stopped several times, to listen. They thought they could hear voices and words behind them, on the word shaker's tree.

Markus Zusak

#2. We would all rather see Iraq resolved successfully.

Charles Kennedy

#3. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words. That's why she could climb higher than anyone else. She had desire. She was hungry for them.

Markus Zusak

#4. The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.

Markus Zusak

#5. There was once a strange small man but there was a word shaker too.

Markus Zusak

#6. Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Donald Rumsfeld

#7. A college joke to cure the dumps.

Jonathan Swift

#8. She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke
"Is it really you?"
Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed?
The man nodded.
His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches.
It is.

Markus Zusak

#9. A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

William Zinsser

#10. Is suffering really necessary?
Yes and no.
If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date. It's goin' to be an ole-fashioned concep', mark my words. That's a prophecy.

Margery Allingham