What is shake?

Famous quotes containing the word shake:

“Do memories plague their ears like flies?
They shake their heads.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1985)

“This war no longer bears the characteristics of former inter-European conflicts. It is one of those elemental conflicts which usher in a new millennium and which shake the world once in a thousand years.”
—Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)

“Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)