Hand Quotes

• I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Believe
  • Art
  • True

• I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number of its followers to horrific acts of violence. That invisible hand moved me to study more and more about Islam.

  

  Brad Thor
  • Age
  • College
  • Violence

• What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked. Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes." Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Library
  • Hunting

• The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Single
  • Hand

• When we run out of them upstairs, I've been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand as I smile and greet our guests with the other. One time, Dave Zinczenko of 'Eat this, Not That!' fame, busted me in the act. The cookies apparently fall in the 'not that' category. I made a note of it.

  

  Lester Holt
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Smile

• My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

  

  Ellen Gallagher
  • Work
  • Hand

• Tell me something, Raphael?" He was already turning, heading to the door. "What is it you'd like to know, Guild Hunter?" She hid her smile at his slip. "What do I call you? Husband? Mate? Boyfriend?" Stopping with his hand on the doorknob, he shot her an inscrutable look. "You can call me 'Master'.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Husband
  • Door

• Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• 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

• Four guys from England took us all by the hand.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Hand
  • Guys

• As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause, tracing the latter back to its producer.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Law
  • Hands
  • Unknown

• It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Beautiful
  • Hand
  • Amazing

• MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of television in general?

  

  Ann Powers
  • Music
  • Hand

• I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Brain
  • Hands

• Sure-hoofed is my steed in the day of battle:The high sprigs of alder are on thy hand:Bran by the branch thou bearestHas Amathaon the good prevailed.

  

  Taliesin
  • Good
  • High
  • Hand

• He stared past her to the place at the other end of the dining table where Regina would sit as his wife. If she were here. If he hadn’t driven her away. “I’m not sure I know how to love, Louisa.” She took his hand. “Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.

  

  Sabrina Jeffries
  • She
  • Past
  • Wife

• If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Hand

• Each colored voter of the state should say in scripture phrase, 'may my hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth' if ever I raise my voice or give my vote to the nominee of the Democratic Party.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • May
  • Party
  • Scripture

• It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Reality

• Especially when we're dealing with issues of race, culture, identity, and history, the time has passed for the 'white savior' holding the black person's hand through their own history.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Time
  • History
  • Black

• I'm from Oklahoma City, and there's a statue across from the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building of Jesus. It's called 'Jesus Wept.' And I love this statue because it's a statue of Jesus with his head in his hand. And his sadness and his pain at some of the choices that are made here - that just breaks his heart.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Heart
  • City
  • Pain

• North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

  

  Bobby Heenan
  • Hand

• The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Hand

• Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book in my hand, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages. I loved the smoothness and bright colors of their jackets. For me, a stacked, unread pyramid of books was one of the sexiest architectural designs there was, because what I loved most about books was their promise, the anticipation of what lay between the covers, waiting to be found.

  

  Debra Ginsberg
  • Anticipation
  • Represented
  • Covers

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