Hands Quotes

Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.

You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?

President Bush says now he is sticking to his plan for handing over power to the Iraqis on June 30. It's also part of his plan to hand over power to John Kerry on January 20.

Did you folks see President Bush's State of the Union Address? How about that surprise announcement? Howard Dean has been captured and he's in the hands of interrogators.

Did you get the new iPhone yet? The iPhone that I have is outdated. It has two pieces and a hand crank.

The senator got so tired on the campaign trail that he started kissing hands and shaking babies.

What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.

You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.

The boss says that games in hand are no good unless you turn them into points. What he's getting at is that games in hand aren't much good unless you turn them into points.

However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted for those shootings - even though most come at the hands of white dudes.

I've spent more than a decade channeling information for and about men. I'm able to come and use this information, with the help of the research, to hand over the keys to the kingdom to women.

Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.

For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.

Weapons of mass destruction are always in the wrong hands.

Put yourself in the hands of the universe-then you will have no need for control.

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

The world is ours if we want it, we can take it, if you just take my hand

I don't know anybody who is raising their hand saying, "Oh God, I love being vulnerable and needy."

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

I'm in a no-win situation. If I have my kids in the show, I'm exploiting them. If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands-on mom.

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

Warner had more hands in his face than an OB-GYN delivering Vishnu's triplets!

Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are 'developed' and those who are not?

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

Women are my hobby... every man needs something to keep his hands busy, and I don't have a guitar like Eddie and Michael, or some drums to bash like Alex, so I have to find some friends.

Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed. Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there.

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.

It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.

It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi?

We are going to take care of our law enforcement because in some ways that's going hand in hand now more and more when you see what's going on.

You can't have problems with hand movement, if you're going to be a good putter.

We want products made in America, made by American hands. You probably saw the Keystone pipeline I approved recently.

[Hillary Clinton] is the one who raised her hand for the war in Iraq and I'm the one who has been fighting it.

Come close now,' ordered Fenworth. 'Time for an exit. I think we'll whirl, Kale likes to whirl. Hold hands. Let's stay together, children. I want no one lost.

To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole.