Quotes about hands
hands drawing perception
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm. Pablo Picasso
hands feet giving
Vuillard balances too far on the side of fantasy... the people in his pictures are not properly defined. As he's an admirable draughtsman it must be that he just doesn't want to give them mouths and hands and feet. Paul Signac
hands issues levels
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place Paul Muldoon
hands lord-henry dry
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry. Oscar Wilde
hands sorrow wounds
sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
hands ordinary bags
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
hands ruined
I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
hands world conformity
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
hands play decision
We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us. Maeve Binchy
hands black skins
I keep telling everyone that I want to start a revolution but no one is taking me seriously. If I had black skin and an afro, would you take me seriously? If I was an Arab waving a hand grenade, would you take me seriously? Madonna Ciccone
hands opposites mind
I dont mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if Im in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want. Macaulay Culkin
hands bridges everyday
won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed. Lucille Clifton
hands space giving
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other. Lucretius
hands stronger wish
It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it. Louis L'Amour
hands want dies
They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die. Lorrie Moore
hands want doe
I've never seen a performer create electricity with an audience like James Brown. He's got everybody in his hands and whatever he wants to do with them, he does it. It's amazing. I've always thought he was underrated. Michael Jackson
hands ifs
If you disarm someone's hands - they cannot kill you! Michael Cudlitz
hands raw-materials materials
This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand. Michael Cunningham
hands epa hazards
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it. Michael Crichton
hands boredom disease
In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.
hands data numbers
Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin. Melissa Bean
hands luck honest
Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature! Mark Twain
hands silence sitting
An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence. Mary Renault
hands want lawyer
Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer. Mary Roberts Rinehart
hands long problem
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible. Niklaus Wirth
hands together way
Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together. Nicole Krauss
hands want another-life
I never want to possibly take another life in my hands. Nicole Richie
hands pins crunch
Always keep bobby pins on hand. It's amazing what you can do with those in a time crunch.
hands skills community
When I arrive in Los Angeles in the entertainment community, and I use implements like a shovel and a hammer, our society has distanced itself so far from working with its hands that those incredibly pedestrian skills are perceived as somehow being extraordinary. Nick Offerman
hands love-one-another farmers
Love one another, make something with your hands, and exalt the farmer.
hands eras financial
Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success. Mary Lou Retton
hands knives civilization
It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.
hands soul looks
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.