Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Mennell

I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

Laini Taylor

...I crave a shawl." He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make you a shawl." She cocked her head. "You knit? Well. That's an unusual accomplishment in a soldier.

Laini Taylor

The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

Laini Taylor

I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.

Laini Taylor

Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting her from just out of reach. A sense would come over her while she was drawing or walking, and once while she was dancing slow and close with Kaz, that she was supposed to be doing something else with her hands, with her legs, with her body. Something else. Something else. Something else.

Martin Luther

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

Nicolas Roeg

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.

Marianne Williamson

Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.

Michael J. Fox

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

Oscar Wilde

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

Oscar Wilde

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.

Madonna Ciccone

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?

Michael Crichton

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.

Michel de Montaigne

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

Michael O'Donoghue

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

Let's not make a mess of this. It started with our seniors today, for whatever reason. They didn't handle the situation. We will be better from today, I promise you that. The film clips are already being clipped.

Love is like handing someone a gun, having them point it at your heart, and trusting them to never pull the trigger.

Digger Phelps

Let's get serious. Glen Davis, he's so tough in the paint. They can't handle him.

Kristi Toliver

She's tall and she's long and I thought if I got it over her it would feel pretty good. I knew when it left my hand it was going in.

She wasn't burned. But when we handed her over to EMS, she was pretty lifeless.

Dennis Farina

When too many people get their hands on things, they want to make it commercial, and they wanna do this, and they wanna do that.

We want to make sure things are handled appropriately and fairly.

Obviously, Nevada speaks for itself, a Top 25 team. They handled us pretty well in Logan. We played well the last time we were here. We've played pretty well in this building.

Nobody was there to watch how I was doing the massage and I had the wrong posture and I wasn't using my hands correctly,

Rick Barnes

Right now, if there's any one thing I can change, it's handling the basketball. Sixteen turnovers at this time of year just kills you.

Right now I don't think as much in terms of wins or losses as much as seeing how the team performs. How we handle the long trip and how we come together as a team is what I'll be looking at. As long as we work hard and do things right, I'll be pretty happy.

People were very upset but were handling it well.

On one hand it is disappointing, but we will have people on the podium.

But we'd hope to get going earlier; we needed this six months in advance. If that had happened, the pledges would be in hand and we would not be embarrassing ourselves to the Heritage Inn and others.

David Nielsen

But everything was done by hand in the 18th century.

One thing we did well was we handled their full-court press. They've got a lot of quickness, and they press the whole game.

One time (Friday) he was pulling on me and I took a swipe at him to slap his hand off,

My abs are sore. They speed around, and they handle the puck, too. It's really tough to handle the puck when you're moving.