Hands Quotes

I was reckless with records. I would pull them out by my fingertips. I would put my hands all over them.

Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?

... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.

How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?

I put my bullets into the target as if I placed them there by hand.

No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on; I’m walking all on my own.

I told myself that if I ever make it to the big leagues that I would be the one to appreciate the fans. Take a little time out to sign autographs and shake their hands and say hello to them.

See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.

On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it.

Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

When I heard the draw I was out on the golf course. I had an eight-iron in one hand and my mobile in the other. When we came out with United, my club went further than the ball.

I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.

Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.

Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.

I'm a very hands-on person; I don't just want to give my name to something and not be a big part of it.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.

The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:.

Friends, you are lucky you can talk about what you did as lovers; the tricks, laughter, the words, the ecstasy. After my darling put his hand on the knot of my dress, I swear I remember nothing.

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.

I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.

I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.