Quotes about hands
hands pieces literature
The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. Dean Koontz
hands two achieve
Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith...
hands space expectations
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel. Daniel H. Wilson
hands ideas joy
Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy. Clarice Lispector
hands lied you-make-me-feel
I lied to Julia, I didn't know what else to do because you - you make me feel..." I had to stop. Not because I didn't have words. I did. But I was afraid to say them. He looked at me, and I knew then I could love him. That if I let myself I would. "You make me feel too," he said, and held out one hand. Elizabeth Scott
hands would-be remember
I'll always remember taking your hand and telling you that everything would be okay.
hands names guy
Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.
hands data might
Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of whic you might not trust your friends with. Eli Pariser
hands europe feet
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not. B. C. Forbes
hands two paper
There were two auditions for The Social Network, one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake? Armie Hammer
hands debt chance
No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on. Barbara Ehrenreich
hands directors tests
After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!” Ava Gardner
hands scotch glasses
I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.
hands years glasses
I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
hands firsts ashes
We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!] Ashley Giles
hands designer-clothes bears
I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder. Ashley Jensen
hands jail contentment
They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch. Charles Bukowski
hands want left-behind
the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
hands adequate-knowledge world
In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand. Benjamin Graham
hands interesting worry
I want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something. You just do whatever is at hand, and you don't even worry about whether it's going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else-or even yourself. You just have to make something. Bruce Nauman
hands mirrors guitar
The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand. Bruce Springsteen
hands wish world
The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right. Brian Tracy
hands toss pedestrians
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. Brendan Behan
hands focus accountability
If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand. Brad Garlinghouse
hands shapes might
The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with its shape and made-ness, while my poems have become more and more free. The first word of every poem might be "Yes." The next words: "And then." Jane Hirshfield
hands weight unyielding
Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.
hands oysters cities
Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell. Jan Morris
hands growth benefits
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. Jamie Dimon
hands curiosity friendly
Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way. James Whitcomb Riley
hands needs sometimes
Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold. James Vincent McMorrow
hands law benefits
Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?... But is it possible?... Whence does the State draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary? Frederic Bastiat
hands games play
I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I'd also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won't let me do it. Denis Leary
hands tvs film
The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.