#shoulder

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not? ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#feel #go #him #how #looking

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#careers #davis #ella #ella fitzgerald #emulate

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. ↗

— William Golding

#gray #keep #me #over #peer

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#carrying #duration #favors #fortune #her

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. ↗

— John Hannah

#actions #along #baggage #business #carry

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. ↗

— Horace

#capable #carefully #choose #equal #may

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#drink #lad #shoulder #sky #your

I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with. ↗

— David Carradine

#above #anybody #ever #forehead #heads

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#everything #formation #i #i think #know

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#being #business #had #hate #how