The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations to be burdened by it all. But the welter of wonderfulness that was their heritage seemed to have been a boon, one that buoyed them up so that each child seems not only to have stood on the shoulders of giants but also to have danced on them.
This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.
Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.
We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.
Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.
Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.
I love my shoulders; they're strong. I like the way they move, and I like the way they look in clothes.
Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants. " These days we stand on each other's feet!
If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.
For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out, and you wait around to get some good ideas that maybe do come or don't come. Until eventually you get the voice and autonomy of the characters, the characters have personality, and they sort of pick up the weight and put it on their shoulders. That's when it becomes a little more fun.
He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
That character in Solitary Man is probably most like me in real life: a solid person who has a good head on her shoulders and is very driven and practical, and not afraid to set boundaries. That's sort of my center. I come from the same place as the character in Solitary Man.
The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.
you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.
I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.