#shoulders

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

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#car #drink #getting #had #having

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

Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know? ↗

— Latrell Sprewell

#because #been #big #bit #breathe

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

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#dirty #doing #enough #i #i am

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. ↗

— Titus Livius

#clever #men #only #others #own

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#coming #done #even #ever #hadn

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#claws #death #gives #had #makes