Shoulders Quotes - Page 18

• As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum. And whether it's the audience or the industry, you end up getting pigeonholed as one thing. So for people to see I can be funny and stay in shape is a bit of a weight off my shoulders.

  Scott Porter

  Emotional, People, Shapes

  Source: m.etonline.com

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• I write first drafts with only the good angel on my shoulder, the voice that approves of everything I write. This voice does'nt ask questions like, Is this good? Is this a poem? Are you a poet? I keep this voice at a distance, letting only the good angel whisper to me: Trust yourself. You can't worry a poem into existence.

  Georgia Heard

  Distance, Writing, Angel

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• Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.

  Maya Angelou

  Hands, Mouths, Arms

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• My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.

  Jim Crace

  Father, Men, Age

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• I was happy with the umpiring in India last year, New Zealand is OK these days, and the only real area of concern is Pakistan. They seem to have a chip on their shoulders about their cricket there.

  Allan Border

  Real, Years, Lasts

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• Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Strong, Light, Giving

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• Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wings, Fans, Blades

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• The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

  Robert Bresson

  Hands, Useless, Economy

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.6, New York Review of Books

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• From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.

  Albert Camus

  Hands, Evening, Breeze

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.43, Vintage

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• I guess it's a bit like not claiming your brother at school. This kind of disowning of the thing that you're most like. You want to be something cool, like Michael Jackson say, with a boom box over your shoulder and wearing leather. But you know deep down you're just a hayseed.

  Ketch Secor

  Brother, School, Over You

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, "You're the guy who has to tell this story because nobody else is."

  Joe Berlinger

  Guy, Stories, Felt

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion should ideally remain a secret for both partners.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Husband, Secret, Female

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• It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Over You, Directors

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.

  Nick Antosca

  Hurt, Exercise, Hands

  Interview with Shane Jones, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced.'

  Sara Paretsky

  Sweet, Book, Past

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• We know our job. We are grinders and we are physical and we need to make their (defense) look back over their shoulders.

  Bob Boughner

  Jobs, Needs, Defense

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• It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

  Kareena Kapoor

  High Heels, Shoes, Add

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• To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.

  Barbara Hurd

  Blessing, Ideas, Luxury

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Playing catch is often the first professional act of the day, it's a transition from personal life to team business. Lastly, as all position players think they can pitch, at least half of us are working on our off-speed stuff likely at the detriment of our elbows and shoulders, but we can't help it. It's too much fun. My changeup has come a long way since high school.

  Fernando Perez

  Fun, Team, School

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• You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Growing Up, Light, Shadow

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• When a teacher is paying extra attention to your child, you believe that it's because you raised such an exceptional kid, one that stands out head and shoulders above the rest of her booger-eating friends.

  Drew Magary

  Teacher, Children, Believe

  Drew Magary (2013). “Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood”, p.33, Penguin

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• If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

  Bill Murray

  Want, Saws, Walks

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• The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

  Erica Jong

  Fun, Men, Perfect

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• Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Horse, Stupid, Silly

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• Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Winter, Knitting, Wish

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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