Quotes about hands
hands evening breeze
From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth. Albert Camus
hands essentials logic
There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
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 springtime here-and-now
Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now? Angelus Silesius
hands stories beats
If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell. Chuck Thompson
hands play needs
You need three or five hands to play Ligeti. Alfred Brendel
hands two public-opinion
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. Alfred de Vigny
hands walks knows
I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand. Alfred de Musset
hands land long
The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers. Andrew Johnson
hands over-you corporations
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations. Andrew Jackson
hands sensitive shakes
I'm not extra sensitive to handshakes. I shake hands all the time. Amy Schumer
hands magic fiction
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left... Amy Tan
hands experience taught
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn. Ally Sheedy
hands actors directors
But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer. Andy Serkis
hands literature doe
Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. Andy Rooney
hands coaching helping
A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future. Andy Stanley
hands dollars bills
I don't feel like I get germs when I hold money. Money has a certain kind of amnesty. I feel, when I'm holding money, that the dollar bill has no more germs on it than my hands do. When I pass my hand over money, it becomes perfectly clean to me. I don't know where it's been - who's touched it and with what - but that's all erased the moment I touch it. Andy Warhol
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 fairness made
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. William Shakespeare
hands captivity bears
So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.
hands gold glorious
Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.
hands brave mind
There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.
hands important never-forget
Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals. Robert Fulghum