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hands feelings excess
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived. Charles Caleb Colton
hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! Charles Dickens
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon
hands despair rope
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
hands ignorant used
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords Alan Watts
piano trying painting
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. Caio Fonseca
piano firsts first-time
I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life. Buffy Sainte-Marie
piano long consistency
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship. Billy Joel
piano honor privilege
It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos. Diana Krall
piano study
I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me. Carl Andre
piano littles sometimes
Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears. Agnes Obel
piano tone action
Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb. Billy Taylor
piano
Unfortunately, I was hauling a piano on that one. Mark Smith
piano-music play keyboards
I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play. Artur Schnabel
potatoes couches fries
When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries. Demetri Martin
potatoes irishmen
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head. Augustus Hare
potatoes enough mashed-potatoes
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. Frank McCourt
potatoes desert plant
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. Jim Fowler
potatoes valuable ancestor
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. Francis Bacon
potatoes fries french-fries
I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes. Mary J. Blige
potatoes fierce brides
Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked. "Potatoes," Vane told him. "What did they do to them? Sherrilyn Kenyon
potatoes cold
Marriage is the cold potato of love. Myrtle Reed
potatoes guise enamored
I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises. James Beard