#shoulder

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#attention #carry #center #changed #down

Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#american #american taxpayer #been #billion #burden

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#ask #butter #daddy #daughter #face

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#got #gun #keep #negotiating #over

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders. ↗

— Ted Williams

#fifty #fifty percent #hitting #percent #shoulders

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#among #bastards #fall #liberals #out

But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#accordingly #act #government #hope #i

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

#aside #casting #children #experience #going

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#keep #leader #longer #looking #must

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

#anything #competition #drove #else #enjoy