Quotes about hands
hands shots
I'm not wild about hand-held shots. Claude Chabrol
hands-up offering hands
Offering a hand up is not a hand-out. Clara Barton
hands police needs
The notion that the campus has its hands tied if a woman is not willing to go to the police, if the woman is only willing to go so far as, "I just don't want to see him in my dorm anymore," is ridiculous. If that's as far as she's willing to go, then we need to accommodate that. And a university needs to be able to accommodate it. Claire McCaskill
hands brain cameras
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain. Claude Levi-Strauss
hands gorillas ishmael
five severed fingers do not make a hand Daniel Quinn
hands organization safety
I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organization is. Cynthia Carroll
hands digital distribution
Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks Cory Doctorow
hands facts somewhere-out-there
The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.
hands hair today
I didn't get my hair styled today. I actually stuck my hand in a socket and this is the way it turned out. Clinton Portis
hands brain extraordinary
I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience. Clive Barker
hands despair mountain
Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand. e. e. cummings
hands worst-enemy infrastructure
We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands. Duncan Hunter
hands people chance
People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing. Andre Benjamin
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