Hands Quotes

But on the other hand, I look back at my career sometimes and can't believe how fast everything has gone and how much I've been able to accomplish.

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is.

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.

[On Regis Philbin:] He's like everybody's kid brother with his hand in the cookie jar and his foot in his mouth. You love him, but you can't take him anywhere.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

So sometimes you have to play your hand and sort of push in a direction. And I think that masculinity is the driving point for a lot of the way that people, like, posture in the work.

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn’t want you to look at my right hand then I don’t look at it.

Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.

I could definitely take someone out with my bare hands.

Rae burned me. She has matches or something. Look, look..." Tori pulled down the collar of her T-shirt. "Leave your cloths on, Tori," Simon said, raising his hands to his eyes. "Please.

Was she telling you to stay away from me?" I asked. He paused, then said, "Yeah." He squeezed my hand out of Aunt Lauren's sight. "It's okay. We're good." Chloe and Derek

I didn't need to be rescued." "Sorry, but my sword outranks your…" she glanced at my hand, "sock puppet.

I stand before you and my heart is in your hands, And I don't know how, I'd survive without your kiss, 'cause you've given me a reason to exist

I don't want to get pigeonholed, and I want to try my hand at anything that excites me. I'm not just a Disney writer.

Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.

I raised my hands, trying to shush her. "Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.

I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.

She moved closer to me, put her hands to my face, and kissed me softly on the lips. God, it felt so good. So perfect, so right... It felt so good, I nearly fell off the roof.

Life deals your hand and you play it.

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesnt make sense.

The finger cut, to save the hand.

In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.

We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

For me, being in front of the camera and training go hand in hand.

Evie? Evie! Ouch!" Jack yanked his hand out of mine,shaking it and glaring at me. "I need these fingers later.

We linked hands—my ex-boyfriend, my boyfriend, and my former friend-then-enemy-then friend and I—and walked through a door to see if maybe empty carbs were good for something after all.

I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

If you can't keep your hands off your girlfriend, then keep your hands off of God's daughter.

All children can do things to help, whether how big or small - by donating toys or lending a hand in the community.

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.