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shoulders

«I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.»
«Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.»
«Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders while computer scientists stand on each other's toes.»
«I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.»
«Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.»
«Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.»
«I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself»
«There was this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me into the cloister. He rides my shoulders I cannot lose him.»
«The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.»
«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.»