Hands Quotes

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.

I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.

People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not... I just have that one person I want to talk to.

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. "You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You trust me, don't you, Mouse?" "Nope!" "Ahhh, I'm hurt. Nobody likes me.

Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.

She put her hand on her hip. "Where are you going?" "To the boat. You called me Lord Bill again. That means we're cool." Cerise slapped her forehead with the heel of her hand and followed him.

And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot." She raised her hand. "Don't." "It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded.

I reached over and squeezed Curran’s hand. “Come on, you, me, a platter of barely seared meat, it will be great. If we see the navigators, we can make fun of the way they hold their forks.

« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style.

Andrea raised her eyebrows. "Look at you, all high-speed." "Yeah, you'd think I was a detective or something." Andrea held her hand out. "You'll jinx it.

Andrea raised her hand. “This is the hand that slapped Aunt B.” “Maybe you should have it gold-plated.” “Here, you can touch it, since you’re my best friend.

Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way.

[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth.

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff.

For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.

You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

Bridget did the only thing she could do in this situation that wouldn't end with her doing a life stint in prison. She flipped the woman off. With both hands.

Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!

I'd got hobbits on my hands hadn't I?

Chaos and love when hand in hand and oh, the glorious grace of the world because of it.

You know you were with the lessers, true?" Butch lifted one of his busted-up hands. "And here I thought I'd been to Elizabeth Arden.

You know, you sound like birds when you do that chuckle thing. It's nice. Over to the left, Vishous put his head in his hands.

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

I can assure you full immunity is not on the table. But your hand is.

I can change the world with my own two hands

We've all got the blood on our hands, we only receive what we demand.

I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

Sometimes there are those that have been dealt a bad hand at life and are dealing with some heavy issues. The least I can do is try to brighten a persons day.

Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

You know," Elijah raised a hand to shake a finger at her, "you have an attitude problem." "I certainly do. Your attitude is a huge problem for me.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse.

I'm a very physical person. I hug people, more so than shake hands.

As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands.

I don't know enough about the legislation , but I think the more information you can put in the hands of the people who are vetting, people who are going to be near children, the better.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.