Top 100 Shrug Quotes
#1. What are you watching?"
One shoulder rose in a shrug. "Looks like an informercial for music of the eighties. Thinking about buying it.
J. Lynn
#2. I'm sorry. I can't serve him that item," the waitress said, only somewhat surprising her since she had a pretty good idea why.
"Why not?" she found herself asking anyway out of curiosity to see if she was right.
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"Because he's a Bradford," the woman explained with a shrug.
R.L. Mathewson
#3. You're gay," wash stated.
Rhodes nodded, a short jerk of his head, dropping his gaze to his beer.
"As in, you-like-men gay."
Still eying his beer, Rhodes gave an affirmative shrug.
"As in, you like-to-fuck-men gay."
"Yes!
Katie Allen
#4. Speaking of ... does this mean you get your phone back?" I shrug. "I don't really want that phone back. I'm hoping my whipped boyfriend will get me an iPhone for Christmas.
Colleen Hoover
#5. Oh my god, you really are insane." "Probably," he said with a shrug, "but don't worry I doubt it's hereditary so the baby should be fine.
R.L. Mathewson
#6. What would happen if you allowed a bug to slip through a module, and it cost
your company $10,000? The nonprofessional would shrug his shoulders, say
"stuff happens," and start writing the next module. The professional would
write the company a check for $10,000!
Robert C. Martin
#7. Keith much preferred cats. A cat wouldn't go mad at a man traversing a wall in the dead of night; it would shrug and lick its arse
Simon Dunn
#8. He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent."
"I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "but you seem to be the only one to
believe me.
Julia Quinn
#9. I'll teach you," Tiger Lily offered with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Did your mother teach you?" he asked.
"I don't have a mother," she said. "Like you."
For some reason, Peter was glad to hear it.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#10. She seemed to Bond to give a quick involuntary shrug of the shoulders as she spoke, but then she leant impulsively towards him. 'I have some news for you from Mathis. He was longing to tell you himself. It's about the bomb. It's a fantastic story.
Ian Fleming
#11. In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent.
Megan Smolenyak
#12. If you disaprove, I can only shrug my shoulders. It's what I have.
Stephen King
#13. The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.
Dan Hill
#14. He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games.
Albert Speer
#15. Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
Jonathan Swift
#16. ... our generation hasn't made any meaningful contribution to the field. We have promoted atheism, displayed agnosticism (which amounts to an ambiguous shoulder shrug), or, in most cases, been eerily silent.
Gudjon Bergmann
#17. Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, 'Well, that's Adrian.
Richelle Mead
#18. Do you imagine, Ted, that if you are kind to servants you are going to advance the cause of socialism?" "Yes," Ted had said. "Then I can't help you," Willi had said, with a shrug, meaning there was no hope for him. Jimmy
Doris Lessing
#19. Maybe it was being orphaned and alone all my life, but I always steeled for the worst outcome I could envision. That way I could shrug and be almost happy with anything that fell short of the worst. It was a peculiar life skill and one I had gotten damn good at.
James Anderson
#20. They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug
Monica Ali
#21. I've never ditched. I don't understand how he can just shrug everything off.
Stephanie Perkins
#22. Outrage steamed her brain. "I've waited three days... Do you know what day it is?"
He gave a one-sided shrug, his massive shoulder muscles shifting. "Who has time to check the calendar when people are shooting at you and snakes are biting you in the ass?
Dana Marton
#23. He gave a small shrug. "You and I both know that people see only what they want to see and believe what they want to believe.
Karen Lynch
#24. But I broke your heart," she whispers. I shrug and kiss her again. "You break it, you buy it.
Autumn Doughton
#25. Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it
William Meikle
#26. 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.
Bret Easton Ellis
#27. What's your name, anyway?"
That awkward shrug again. "They call me Wolf at the fights."
" Wolf? " How ... predatory.
Marissa Meyer
#28. I don't know," Jason said with a shrug. "Maybe it's too late for me. Maybe my heart is already too far good."
With a smile she said softly, "It's never too late to be good.
Randall Arthur
#29. Instead of sweating the small stuff - and the big stuff - I shrug and say, "thank you.
Linda Gray
#30. That just proves I have mad skills. I can shrug under any circumstance. I'm a motherfoing shrugging master, yo. "It
Jake Bible
#31. So you get the house to yourself and you sprend Friday night baking? Typical teenager.
"What can I say?" I shrug. "I'm a rebel.
Colleen Hoover
#32. A box of chocolates is the wrapped equivalent of a shrug. You may as well not bother.
Matthew Crow
#33. Oh right," he says. "Because that makes sense. Because tossing a grown-ass man over your shoulders is just so freaking easy. That shit just comes naturally to you." I shrug. Kenji lets out a low whistle.
"Cocky as hell, too.
Tahereh Mafi
#34. [W]hen we make mistakes, we shrug and say that we are human. As bats are batty and slugs are sluggish, our own species is synonymous with screwing up.
Kathryn Schulz
#35. I admire you", said the little prince, with a little shrug of his shoulders, "but what is there about my admiration that interests you so much?
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#36. GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
Ambrose Bierce
#37. How many good soldiers will die, saving these civilians? And how many people will shrug later and say: That's their job.
Ann Aguirre
#38. 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-
Cassandra Clare
#39. Oh my god are you talking about stalking me?"
"yes, but if it comes before a judge we'll just call it a little misunderstanding," he said with a shrug.
R.L. Mathewson
#40. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
Jim Morrison
#41. Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.
James Laver
#42. Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools.
Megan Whalen Turner
#43. Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.
Yogi Berra
#44. What of honour? What of courage? What of all the things that bind the legions together?' He gave a shrug and a nod together, and a faint grin that was all the old Juvens; wild, erratic, carefree. His tilted palm said, 'What of them? Life is too precious.
M.C. Scott
#45. Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable.Kolo?"
-Brandon Sanderson
(Elantris)
Brandon Sanderson
#46. I shrug, and then we sit awhile without saying anything. Then he goes, 'Where'd you learn to fight like that, anyway?'
I start to shrug again, and then I stop. 'I guess from my dad,' I say, which, really, is the truth.
E.R. Frank
#47. Well,' I shrug, all innocent, 'we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don't we, Mr. Peel?
L.A. Meyer
#49. How did you survive?" I asked. My question caught him off guard, and his hand curled around the dice. He gave a cautious shrug. "The grace of God, I suppose.
Megan Shepherd
#50. People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.
Phillip Noyce
#51. Every author has some peculiarity in his descriptions or in his style of writing. Those who do not like him, magnify it, shrug up their shoulders, and exclaim there he is again!
Hans Christian Andersen
#52. The Admiral's using us," he says to the kids around him. "Don't you see that?"
Most of the kids just shrug, but Hayden's there, and he never misses an opportunity to add his peculiar wisdom to a situation.
"I'd rather be used whole than in pieces," Hayden says.
Neal Shusterman
#53. You've never dated any guys?'
I shrug. 'Haven't even kissed one.' And then I add, 'Well, in recent years.'
'Then how do you know you don't like guys?'
'I don't know, Freddie,' I say, trying to hide my irritation. 'How many boys did you kiss before you realized you were straight?
Julie Murphy
#54. I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home.
Nick Harkaway
#55. What if I said she sold me one evening?" His brow furrowed. "One evening of what?" She gave a little shrug. "Simplicity. Ease. Peace." One side of his mouth lifted in a half smile. "I would say, let's buy a lifetime of it.
Sarah MacLean
#56. You have to want the haunted house to scare you. It completely steals your money to go through with one of those people who shrug it all off, who touch the monsters' faces to show they're fake.
Stephen Graham Jones
#57. Are you always a smart ass?" Ryder asked with a lifted brow at her sardonic smile. "Nope, sometimes I'm asleep," she offered with a lazy shrug.
Amelia Hutchins
#58. Maybe." I shrug. "But what I meant was, can't you use the makeup to cover it?"
Miles rolls his eyes and scowls. "Oh, so I can sport a huge flesh-colored beacon instead? Would you look at this thing? There's no disguising it. It's got it's own DNA! It's casting shadows!
Alyson Noel
#59. Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame ... For the first time, a glint of humor touched Ramon Galverra's finely sculpted mouth and arrogant dark eyes.
Judith McNaught
#60. The next day she'd examined her red satin sandals
and with a frown said, "I'm thinking about buying two
snakes."
His are you kidding me "Why?" had caused her to
shrug.
"I'd name them Leftie and Rightie and when they
were big enough, they'd become Mamma's boots.
Gena Showalter
#61. You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.
Robert Breault
#62. A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
Jonathan Davis
#63. I was hopeful of his answer, or fearful of it. The answer was a slight shrug.
Diana Gabaldon
#64. Is that your wife?" Julie asks again, more forcefully. I nod. "Who's that ... guy she's with?" I shrug. "Is she cheating on you or something?" I shrug. "This doesn't bother you?"
I shrug.
"Stop shrugging, you asshole! I know you can talk; say something.
Isaac Marion
#65. We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.
Hunter S. Thompson
#66. Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrug
you shrug away the warm kiss
Jack Kerouac
#67. Cormac's eyes eyes narrow. "She wasn't half the Spinster you are, Adelice."
"I'm half the person she was," I say with a shrug, barely keeping my voice steady. "So I guess it evens out.
Gennifer Albin
#68. Whatever." I shrug. "It's good, I guess, but if given the choice, I'd still pick, like, a Kristen Ashley book any day of the week.
Julie Johnson
#69. But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.
Jonathan Lethem
#70. He made a sympathetic shrug, then spread his hands. Flexibility, my friend. Flexibility is the key to all happiness. Remember that.
Robert Crais
#71. He have a modified shrug that tilted one shoulder forward,
Faith Hunter
#72. 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.
Victor LaValle
#73. She shrugged innocently at him and asked, "What I do?
Jason Medina
#74. How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!
Laurence Sterne
#75. Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.
Charles Albert Gobat
#76. I shrug. I'm an excellent shrugger. It's rivaled only by my ability to nod.
Katja Millay
#77. This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all of the stories about him and he doesn't care. Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack.
Frank Herbert
#78. Don't you ever want to know?"
"What?"
"Why you were Slated."
"No. If the past is unbearable, why choose to bear it?"
I shrug. Because it is mine.
Terri Terry
#79. All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man's heart out with a shrug, did you know that?
David Eddings
#80. Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.
Helen Oyeyemi
#81. Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.
Ruth Stout
#82. Kai grinned. He couldn't help it, and he did nothing to hide it when Levana turned a scowl on him. With a shrug, he told her, "She did warn you." Levana
Marissa Meyer
#83. All I need is the opportunity,' I said confidently. He smiled. 'Seventeen's very young, and you look even younger.' I shrugged off-handedly. 'That's a question of make-up.' Karno laughed. That shrug, he told Sydney later, got me the job.
Charlie Chaplin
#84. No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
Herbert Spencer
#85. Jen said some guy asked you but you didn't want to go. Why not?"
I shrug. "I have this character flaw? Called dignity?
A.G. Howard
#86. Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don't pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be a shrug. For us, crazy happens. Better to sit back, enjoy the show, and drink the tea
Allison Glock
#87. I shrug. You're a part of me, Olivia. Anything that involves you is always about us.
Veronica Rossi
#88. (and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of her hips)
E. E. Cummings
#89. Something you want to tell me?"
"Um ... your scrub top's on inside out?"
"What?" He glances down. "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
I shrug. "It was funny.
Lindy Zart
#90. Little Life Lesson 51: When selecting a member of a group to put on the Endangered Species List, it's probably best not to pick the least popular person, because there is always a chance everyone will shrug and be like, "Um, okay. Hey, anyone want pizza?" and leave.
Michele Jaffe
#91. A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.
Terry Pratchett
#92. A shrug. "I wasn't sent to you until now." "Are you serious?" Incredulity sharpened my tone. "Is your boss in a bad mood, or does he suffer from time-delay up there?
Jeaniene Frost
#93. With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her eyes water most tremendously, a cramp in the back of one knee, and the fact that her new ball gown was getting most awfully wrinkled.
Gail Carriger
#94. Your dad said you stopped playing right after I left." He did? "My dad talks too much." "Why, Tru?" "I dunno." I shrug. "He just does." "No." Jake smiles, coming over to me. "Not why does your dad talk too much. Why did you stop playing after I left?" "When you left, I guess the music left with you.
Samantha Towle
#95. You can't ride a book," Phillip said with a shrug. "A book won't nuzzle you. It doesn't have a soul or a personality." The teacher's scowl eased into a small smile. "There we must disagree.
Iscah
#96. Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.
Susanna Kearsley
#97. I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.
Mark Zuckerberg
#98. So you're telling me that intoxicated cowboy is my best hope of getting to Paint River Ranch tonight?"
The bartender gave a sympathetic shrug. "Yep. And you'd better catch him before he starts drinking again.
Elizabeth Otto
#99. Matt shrugged. It was a good shrug, too. All it was missing was a beret, a stripy shirt and a Gauloise cigarette.
D.C. Farmer
#100. We're creatures of habit when it comes to mobile contracts and the wires piping high-speed data into our homes. It's a pain to deal with transfers, installations, and customer service interactions, so we shrug and keep paying a premium.
Ian Lamont
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