Hand Quotes

• Personally, I like to yearn a little and long for the next episode. On the other hand, I'm also a glutton. My kids love to dive in and eat whole series at once.

  

  Jenji Kohan
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Hand

• The last 200 years, we've had an incredible amount of automation. We have tractors that do the work that horses and people used to do on farms. We don't dig ditches by hand anymore. We don't pound tools out of wrought iron. We don't do bookkeeping with books! But this has not, in net, reduced the amount of employment.

  

  David Autor
  • People
  • Work
  • Hand

• And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Earth
  • Hand

• I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Focus

• The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Nature
  • Photography
  • Advent

• When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • People
  • Good
  • Gun

• When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

  

  Lucy Liu
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Hurt

• I never heard of anyone saying they want to deploy their capital wisely and go buy a sports franchise. What you want to do is just not lose money. You see, I don't have to work anymore. I tell people I don't have a real job. On the other hand, I learned long ago that you can't go broke if you turn a profit.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Amazing
  • Hands
  • Arms

• He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Father
  • Hero

• Really, all I worry about is the work in hand.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Worry

• As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Business
  • Job
  • Think

• When I was around 12 or so, I saw 'The Shining.' I just remember that being a turning point for me, where I started to think about the fact that there was a hand behind the film. That it wasn't just this magical story being told - there were actual people crafting these films, and they were works of art.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People
  • Art
  • Remember

• There was nothing about Bobby I didn't like... I guess I never understood why he took a left-hand turn when real success came. We got along better from 1990 until his death in 2003. I had accepted him for who he was.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Real
  • Why
  • Death

• Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Done
  • Law
  • Singing

• I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
  • Light
  • Baby

• Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose! Every song that the skylark sung Once, we thought, must come to a close: Now we know the spirit of song, Song that is merged in the chant of the whole, Hand in hand as we wander along, What should we doubt of the years that roll?

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • World
  • Heart
  • Song

• I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Hand

• As an actor, you can go in, and you give your best performance, but if you hand that performance to ten different directors and ten different editors, you get ten different movies.

  

  James Marsden
  • Different
  • Hand

• Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots of cash on hand and few outstanding debts might be dull stocks, but they were at least safe bets for bondholders.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Long
  • Money
  • Stock

• I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Hand

• They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

  

  Pete Maravich
  • Hand

• Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

  

  David Fincher
  • Hand

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