#shoulders

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

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#brits #case #down #german #just

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

One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#head #i #laughable #like #males

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#blanket #down #fall #feet #left

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#because #black #every #here #i

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#feet #ground #keep #put #responsibility

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd. ↗

— Lowell Thomas

#above #crowd #cut #distinction #head

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders. ↗

— Ted Williams

#fifty #fifty percent #hitting #percent #shoulders

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