Hand Quotes

• Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Men
  • Brain
  • Winning

• My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the head of the clan. Every morning, we all had to say good morning and kiss his hand. But not me. I jumped on his lap and bit him.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • Good
  • Father
  • Morning

• When I heard the Pogues, I connected with the songs immediately, but it was also the first time I didn't reject out of hand the kind of music that my parents had always tried to push on to us when we were growing up.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

  

  George Eliot
  • Hand
  • Destiny
  • Sarcastic

• I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Life
  • Why
  • Drawing

• Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Life
  • Career
  • Dance

• Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like.

  

  Jaime Hernandez
  • Together
  • Hand
  • Picture

• The lords and ladies pass a rulingThat sons and girls go hand in landFrom good stock and the best breedingPaid for by the servile class.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Stock

• Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Long
  • She

• On the one hand, the great focal points and the main arteries of traffic speak of the dignity of government and the easy movement of commerce. But we need also the more intimate side of city planning, the by ways with their little shops, the occasional drinking fountain at a street corner, the glimpse of some secluded garden through a half-open gate.

  

  Clarence Stein
  • Great
  • City
  • Garden

• I have an oval-shaped scar on the knuckle of my right index finger from crashing my hand through a light fixture while practicing Elvis Presley moves in college.

  

  Peter Lerangis
  • Light
  • College
  • Hand

• The type of cartooning that I think is generally referred to as 'alternative' or 'underground' is usually - the distinction is usually in terms of whether it's made by one person, the entire thing is done by one hand or more of a production line process, which is how the comics that we grew up reading were made.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Up
  • Done
  • Reading

• I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Art
  • Control
  • Quality

• Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Taken
  • Jesus
  • Room

• I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

  

  Kip Winger
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Black

• Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Hand
  • Virtue
  • Royal

• I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Divorce

• My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Hand

• The celebrity craze is a little much. But it's good for me, so you don't bite the hand that feeds you.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Celebrity

• Wolf-spider, crouch in your funnel nest.If I knew you, once,now I know you less.In the sinking sand,where we've come to rest,have I had a hand in your loneliness?

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Hand
  • Rest
  • Wolf

• The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Alone
  • Hand

• For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Life
  • Up
  • Sports

• Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Hand
  • Winning
  • Mad

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