Quotes about hand
hands imagination live-in-the-moment
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. Andre Dubus
hands levels crowds
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level. Andre Breton
hands crowds pistols
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.
hands too-much might
It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go. Ann Patchett
hands broke fragile-things
What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble. Anais Nin
hands identity coats
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.
hands honey bees
So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash. Alton Brown
hands land mars
Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter. Andrew Young
hands lines littles
Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life. Chuck Palahniuk
hands arms succeed
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death. Christy Turlington
hands way film
Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down. Christopher Nolan
hands always-trying noise
It’s like trying to herd a flock of geese,” said Orik. “They’re always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they’ll bite your hand first chance they get. Christopher Paolini
hands pjs gestures
Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome Christopher Moore
hands eggs giving
I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm a brown egg. He took them. They were cold. He thought it a tender, wonderful thing to do. She had given him something, the eggs, after all, only a symbol, but they had come from her hands as a gift. To him. It didn't matter that he'd bought them himself at the supermarket the day before. He imagined she understood him, that she had to love him to know that it was the outstreched hands, the giving, that mattered. Annie Proulx
hands laborers hard
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences. Anne Bradstreet
hands tongue fit
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits,
hands female tongue
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.
hands giving people
In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. 'Deserves' is not the point. And 'owes' is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get. Amy Bloom
hands people nerd
That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that. Amy Adams
hands ideas issues
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues. Amos Bronson Alcott
hands order doubt
There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini. Anthony Eden
hands forever might
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. Anthony Doerr
hands years orchestra
Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around. Anthony Daniels
hands gone phrases
My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate. Anne Taintor
hands countenance
the hand will often reveal more than the countenance ... Anna Katharine Green
hands squat ifs
When life hands you lemons - SQUAT! Squats make everything better. And if squats don't, bacon will Anna Lee
hands said made
Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far ... Anne Sexton
hands kitchen faces
Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.
hands house ashes
Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all. Anne Rice
hands mythology i-can
I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.
hands vampire red
I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!
hands land ideas
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands. Anna Deavere Smith
hands glasses moments
I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand Andrew Solomon