Hand Quotes

Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.

I was hesitant to go around and shake hands, just go up and stick my hand out to strangers. Then I learned to stick my hand out.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?

I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.