Quotes About Shrug

I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.

I'm also staring at the fortune cookie. Its got a lot of blood on it and I shrug and say, as jovially as I can, Oh, you know me.

I'm into, oh, murders and executions mostly. It depends." I shrug. "Do you like it?" she asks, unfazed. "Um … It depends. Why?" I take a bite of sorbet. "Well, most guys I know who work in mergers and acquisitions don't really like it," she says.

Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an inarticulate zombie confused by the irony of Randy Newman's I Love L.A.

night." "Just some sore muscles. That's all." She shrugged

I shrugged, slightly unnerved by the feverish joy in the other girls' eyes.

Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.

How much do you know of La Mayonnaise?" she inquired. He shrugged. "Maybe up to the part that goes 'Aux armes, citoyens'—

dislike that phrase What can you do?, or, as my highly eloquent contemporaries put it: Whatever. The shrug, the attitude, dismisses any possibility of things changing. It's self-perpetuating paralysis.

So, says Lev, as casually as he can, you wanna dance? Do you believe in the end of the world? she responds. Lev shrugs. I don't know. Why? Because the day after that is when I'll dance with you.

Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a big temper?" I held up my hand to shield my eyes from the sun. "Marc Antony," I said, "how does such a big man like you have such a little brain?

Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrug--you shrug away the warm kiss

In response, he gave an almost imperceptible shoulder shrug that said, White folk gonna white folk.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.

With peril a constant companion, a combat engineer took joy in life when he could and tended to shrug off dangers he considered minor.

Well,' I shrug, all innocent, 'we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don't we, Mr. Peel?

This one incident I will not allow you to shrug off!" "I wasn't planning to," Jace said. "I can't shrug anything off. My shoulder's dislocated." -Hodge & Jace, pg.296-

But wulf did what it does: Simply insisted. Simply burned through. Simply defied. The same shrugging, grinning continuance. The nature of life. The nature of the beast.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

And under it all, earth waited with her lead-filled veins, impatient to shrug herself clean.

You couldn't get to a certain age without attracting a lot of clutter. But why did it always have to get in the way? Why couldn't you just shrug it off and get on with life? Why was misery so easy to embrace and joy so bloody elusive?

Percy lifted his shoulders in the faintest of Gallic shrugs. As you like, it said. And yet his eyes—they were still beautiful, damn him, dark and soft—rested on Grey with what seemed a genuine sympathy. Grey sighed. Doubtless it was genuine. Percy could not be trusted—not ever—but what he'd done had been done from weakness, not from malice, or even lack of feeling.

Oh well, McWatt sang, what the hell.