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Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says "Let's make a wish on a star," there is one thing I wish for: wisdom.
Rene Russo
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Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters US, let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder, and bullets in his pocket, and there is no power on earth or under the earth which can deny that he has earned the right of citizenship in the United States.

frederick douglass

— Speech, "Should the Negro Enlist in the Union Army?", National Hall, Philadelphia (6 July 1863); published in Douglass' Monthly, August 1863

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This is the ECW World Championship, and I will wear it proudly. [Points to the WWE Championship on his left shoulder] And look at this one—it spins!

rob van dam

— ECW, June 13, 2006: after being proclaimed the new ECW World Champion and opting to keep the WWE Championship as well.

Tags: ECW, World, Championship, wear, proudly, Points, WWE, left, look

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Poetry is a rich, full-blooded whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbers the leaf, the duet of two nightingales, the sweet pea, that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

wallace stevens

— Quoted in Life, 13 June 1960.

Tags: Poetry, rich, fullblooded, whistle, cracked, ice, crunching, pails, night

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At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.

nazim hikmet

— From Human Landscapes from My Country, Book Two, Section VII

Tags: eighteen, heart, shoots, pebble, slingshot, head, sit

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Hungry gentry now pillage, maraud as they please, In the barn Baptist greatly beasts' numbers decreased 'Sprinkling' heads of two oxen, two calves and one goat, While Razor his sabre sank deep in each throat. Awl, with his rapier, also ran up to their aid Sticking old boars and piglets below shoulder blade. Now death threatens the poultry – the geese, alert flocks, Which once saved Rome from Gauls in the dark climbing rocks, Vainly cackle for succour; no Manlius will come...


— Book Eight, The Foray

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Britain must, and I am sure will, stand shoulder-to- shoulder withthe United States of America and peaceful nations across the world in deploying every possible resource to bring to justice the people responsible, and make sure terrorism never prevails.


— 2001Statement,11 Sep.

Tags: Britain, stand, withthe, United, States, America, peaceful, nations, across

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For unto us a child is born, unto us a son isgiven: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,Counseller,The mighty God, The everlasting Father,The Prince of Peace.Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, uponthethrone of David, and uponhis kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the L of hosts will perform this.

Bible (Old Testament)

— ORDIsaiah 9:6-7.

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Dead echoes! But I knew her body there, Time like a serpent down her shoulder, dark, And space, an eaglet's wing, laid on her hair.

(Harold) Hart Crane

— 1930  The Bridge,'The River'.

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren’t still there, he’s no longer a political leader.

bernard baruch

— As quoted in his obituary, New York Times (21 June 1965)

Tags: political, leader, keep, looking, over, time, see, boys, there

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This picture will try to show the Nazism is a matter of mind, not geography, and that there are Nazis — and people of good will — in every country. The world can't spend its life looking over its shoulder and nursing hatreds. There would be no progress that way.

Marlon Brando

— At a press conference for The Young Lions in Berlin; republished in Marlon Brando, Portraits and Film Stills 1946-1995 (1996)

Tags: picture, try, show, Nazism, matter, mind, geography, there, Nazis

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The only other thing I've noticed is some kind of acute muscular spasm in my neck and left shoulder, and that's hardly entertaining, except maybe for the bit where the doctor rather brilliantly prescribed me diazepam so I necked some and walked very slowly around the Westfield shopping centre listening to Henry Mancini's Pink Panther theme on repeat on an MP3 player, smiling eerily at shoppers.

charlie brooker

— The Guardian 9 February 2009. [10]

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Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.

robert burton

— Section 1, member 2, Lawful Cures, first from God.

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He must put his shoulder to the wheel and get it right; one more push, that was all that was wanted.

George Moore

— Vain Fortune, Chapter 2.

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And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat,Or the selfish hope of a season's fame,But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote --'Play up! play up! and play the game!'

henry newbolt

— Describing a game of cricket.
— Vitai Lampada

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Please keep your hands downAnd stop raising your voiceIt's hardly what I'd be doing if you gave me a choiceIt's a simple suggestion an you give me some timeSo just say yes or noWhy can't you shoulder the blame?'Cause both my shoulders are heavyFrom the weight of us bothYou're a big boy now so let's not talk about growthYou've not heard a single word I have saidOh my god

snow patrol

— How To Be Dead

Tags: keep, hands, downAnd, stop, raising, what, doing, you, me

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O let the organ, many-voiced, sing boldly, O let it roar like spring's first thunderstorm! My half-closed eyes over your young bride's shoulder Will meet your eyes just once and then no more.

anna akhmatova

— Translated by Irina Zheleznova

Tags: organ, manyvoiced, sing, boldly, roar, spring's, first, thunderstorm, eyes

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Punk:;:"I am the one man in the world who can shoulder the burden of ending the streak"

phil brooks

— March 18, 2013

Tags: one, man, world, who, can, burden, ending, streak

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[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.

Raymond Chandler

— "A Qualified Farewell" (essay, early 1950's), published in The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)

Tags: screenwriter, sense, exile, thought, nostalgia, quiet, room, balanced, mind

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And God smiled again, And the rainbow appeared, And curled itself around his shoulder.

james weldon johnson

— The Creation, st. 7

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Absently he fingered the neat slice across the shoulder of his coat. Good shooting, at a moving target only half seen through the trees. He could have admired it more had he not been the target.

robert jordan

— Matrim Cauthon

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Death rides on my shoulder, death walks in my footsteps. I am death.

robert jordan

— Lews Therin Telamon

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The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.

George Bernard Shaw

— #158. (Maxims for Revolutionists (1903))

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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

larry wall

— Usenet article <199806181642.JAA10629@wall.org> (1998)

Tags: reminded, day, daughter, looked, over, Perl, code, 'What, swearing

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Down the mountain walls From where pan’s cavern is Intolerable music falls. Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear, Belly, shoulder, bum, Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs Copulate in the foam.

William Butler Yeats

— News for the Delphic Oracle, st. 3

Tags: Down, mountain, walls, pans, cavern, Intolerable, music, falls, Foul

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I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis, She tried to take me upstairs for a ride. She had to heave me right across her shoulder 'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind. It's the honky tonk women Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.


— The Rolling Stones, "Honky Tonk Woman"

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Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.


— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Terre des Hommes (1939)

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There's a rainbow round my shoulder And a sky of blue above, Oh the sun shines bright, the world's all right `Cause I'm in love.


— Dave Dreyer, in There's a Rainbow Round My Shoulder

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And the South Wind he was dressed With a ribbon round his breast That floated, flapped, and fluttered In a riotous unrest And a drapery of mist From the shoulder to the wrist Floating backward with the motion Of the waving hand he kissed.

james whitcomb riley

— James Whitcomb Riley, The South Wind and the Sun.

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The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.


— 1922  Last Poems, no.9.

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