Handful Quotes

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

Even my mom. I have to tell her, "If you want a snack, don't go to bed with potato chips. Eat a handful of pistachios and a handful of dates."

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

a handful of crumpled stars

Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?

Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters.

I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.

We must treat ideas somewhat as though they were baby fish. Throw thousands out into the waters. Only a handful will survive but that is plenty.

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential.

I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately.

I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by.

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

That Loor's a handful, she is." - Spader (Black Water)

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.

My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.

We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"

As you sift through this very solid-looking body, you have to go only so far before you end up with a handful of nothing.

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city

So we keep asking, over and over,Until a handful of earthStops our mouths -But is that an answer?

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

My front door had seen jean skirts, dresses, even a see-through tube dress over a string bikini. A handful of times, spackled-on makeup and glitter lotion. Never pajamas.

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after it.

I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to.

I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.

You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.

Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.

Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.

Handfuls of frosty water can make almost anyone smile, but it cannot make them forget.

During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful.

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

I have a handful of people that I have dated that I don't follow, but I will go and see what they are up to.