Shoulders Quotes - Page 11

• No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

  Herbert Spencer

  Eye, Ideas, Phrases

  Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative”, p.230

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• Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.

  Irving Howe

  Atmosphere, Curls, Phrases

  Irving Howe (1995). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harvest Books

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• When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.

  Etty Hillesum

  Silly, Should Have, Sake

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.494, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.

  Jim Cramer

  Money, Night, Mad

  "Mad Money". Book by Jim Cramer, www.today.com. March 14, 2005.

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• We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Moving, People, Majority

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• Why you got your ass on your shoulders?

  Busta Rhymes

  Friendship, Ass

  Song: Ass On Your Shoulders, Album: Genesis, 2001

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• You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.

  Bob Dylan

  Horse, Cat, Animal

  Song: Like A Rolling Stone

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• The best time to tell your story is when you have to tell your story. When it's not really a choice. But then, when you get that first, messy, complicated version down, you have to read it over and be very tough on yourself and ask, 'Well what's the story here?' If you're lucky enough to have someone you trust looking over your shoulder, he or she can help you if [you] lack perspective on your own story.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Perspective, Choices

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• There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!

  William Morris Hunt

  Reality, Men, Vitality

  William Morris Hunt (1878). “W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais”

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• I'm always looking over my shoulder, needing to stay ahead of the game.

  Millard Drexler

  Games, Ahead Of The Game

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• In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Cancer, Shakes

  "Elizabeth Edwards Battles Breast Cancer". "Dateline NBC" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. November 21, 2004.

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• My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken

  Jackie Chan

  Eye, Two, Skulls

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• I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

  Rita Coolidge

  Song, People, Singers

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

  Bonnie Blair

  Long, Track, Competition

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• I'm somebody that has a very big competitive edge and a chip on my shoulder.

  Erin Andrews

  Chips, Bigs, Edges

  "Up Close with Erin Andrews". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

  Erin Andrews

  Motivation, Thinking, People

  "Up Close with Erin Andrews". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

  John R. Allen

  Real, Difficult Situations, Soldier

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• I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

  Eric Church

  Chips, Huge

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• I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.

  Tyson Chandler

  Fashion, Clothes, Way

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• I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Past, Training, Injury

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• I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

  Alexis Denisof

  Fall, Thinking, Directors

  "Angel's Alexis Denisof goes post-apocalyptic in a new web series". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

  Ava DuVernay

  Black, Wish, Cameras

  "10 Questions With Ava DuVernay ('I Will Follow,' Middle Of Nowhere,” AFFRM)". www.indiewire.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

  Eric Dickerson

  Pads

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• My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

  Wes Anderson

  Children, Perfect, People

  "Wes Anderson, Creating A Singular 'Kingdom'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, wunc.org. May 29, 2012.

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• Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

  Charles Derber

  Responsibility, Government, Greed

  Charles Derber (2015). “Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States”, p.107, Routledge

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