#shoulder

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#annoying #attention #demanding #doing #else

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#birth #carries #earth #free #gravity

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others. ↗

— Vince McMahon

#because #delegation #different #different ways #grow

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last. ↗

— John Abizaid

#being #business #change #day #door

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

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. ↗

— Hal Abelson

#because #far #giants #i #others

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#aristocracy #contemporary #every #fallen #feels

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve. ↗

— Clara Barton

#ball #between #body #chest #cutting

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth. ↗

— Rachel Bilson

#ago #car #few #guy #his

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed. ↗

— Bette Davis

#bodies #emerging #exposed #i #long