Quotes about hands
hands photograph boxes
I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph. Annie Leibovitz
hands painting chapters
Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left. Annie Dillard
hands simplicity healthy
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.
hands jeans long
I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes. Clemence Poesy
hands multitasking distraction
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. Clay Shirky
hands order matter
The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not serve us, we serve it. If we have trouble striding toward it, we assume the matter is with us, and not the ideal. Daniel J. Boorstin
hands alcohol drug
Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on. D. H. Lawrence
hands melting faces
And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.
hands benches matter
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive. Conrad Black
hands two church
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves! Daniel Defoe
hands presidential speech
A presidential speech is always the work of many hands. David Frum
hands pages doe
Someone once asked me, `How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, `With both hands, of course...' David Coverdale
handsome burden
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me. David Bailey
hands survival world
Clearly we could devastate the world... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands David Attenborough
hands sorrow unbroken
Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face? Dylan Thomas
hands tears flow
Hands have not tears to flow.
hands world outcomes
... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future. Dwight D. Eisenhower
hands voting republic
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
hands people killing
If second hand smoke is killing that many people and nicotine is so addictive then why is no one addicted to second hand smoke? Doug Stanhope
hands idols people
People want an idol. They want royalty. They don't want a public servant. Hell no. They want someone to clap for and go, "Oh, he touched my hand at the rally!"
hands tasks computer
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. Douglas Adams
hands needs helping
If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..." "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost.
hands opinion difficult
It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.
hands order years
Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of, in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand, and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship? Dorothea Dix
hands focus looks
To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole; Donna Tartt
hands sometimes poor
Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.
hands style elegance
Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
hands skeletons legs
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton. Donald Johanson
hands skulls body
Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.
hands doubt done
I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show. Don Rickles
hands swings texas
Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other. Craig McDonald
hands lines matter
I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands. Constantin Brancusi
hands weapons newspapers
A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands. Claud Cockburn