Hand Quotes

• I'm just very fortunate that I'm alive. I look every day and see my hand and say, 'Thank you, Lord.'

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Hand

• I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.

  

  Jane Hamilton
  • Writing
  • Hand

• I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. She was a very nice person, but she had a little bit of a tendency toward melodrama... Her response was to take the key to my apartment off of her key chain and hand it back to me.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Acting

• I can clap with one hand.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Hand
  • I Can
  • Clap

• Studies of violin players by Thomas Elbert have shown that the region of the brain responsible for moving the left hand... increases in size as a result of practice.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Moving
  • Brain
  • Practice

• I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

  

  David Cook
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope.

  

  Diego Maradona
  • World
  • God
  • Country

• The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Hand
  • Focus
  • Sometimes

• it’s like we’re a real family. in my next life, i still want to stay with my members. even if i’m born again, i want us to be together as btob members. until we become successful singers, let’s go hand in hand with our arms around each other. let’s leave everlasting memories for our fans as btob. until the end, let’s not let go of each other’s hands. whenever you’re tired or you feel like letting go of your hand, i will hold it even tighter.

  

  Seo Eunkwang BtoB
  • Family
  • Members
  • Singers

• Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Want
  • Government

• I like working with actors who make choices. Whether they get their ideas from me or from themselves, I want them to own all the choices so I can take my hand out of it.

  

  Kenny Leon
  • Hand
  • Choices

• 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.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Think
  • Hand
  • Now

• Much of the music is a Merzbild, put together from whatever came to hand. I mean, for example...the Alberti-bass horn solo accompanying the Messenger. I also mean the fusion of such widely divergent types of music as the Folies Bergeres tune at No. 40 ('The girls enter, kicking') and the Wagnerian 7th-chords at Nos. 58 and 74.'

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Together
  • Hand

• Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I am out of season all years round - watch machinery roar to my empty sound.Touch my heart and feel winter, hold my hand and be doomed forever.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Heart
  • Forever
  • Winter

• Growing up, I was always wearing my brother's hand-me-downs, so nothing ever fit me. I told myself whenever I have my own money and my own choice with what I get to wear, it's always going to fit me correctly.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.

  

  Joel C. Rosenberg
  • God
  • Country
  • Fear

• I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Television
  • Media

• Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

  

  Walter Map
  • Hand
  • Healing
  • Surgeon

• I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • Hand

• There's nothing ever monetarily or fame-seeking or any of the other motivations that sometimes go hand-in-hand with this profession. To me, it's just not like that. I'm on a journey of self-discovery and trying to avoid total existential crisis. That's the kind of operating zone that I'm approaching this business from.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Journey

• When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

  

  Alice Paul
  • Hand

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