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Quotes About Hands

A magician came to entertain us, and I was mesmerized by his beautiful hands, his fluid, round gestures. I couldn't stop watching his hands. They were better than any of his tricks. He pulled a bouquet of paper flowers out of the air and gave them to me with a courtly bow, and I thought love was like that, pulled out of the air, something bright and unlikely.
~ Janet Fitch
his hands, shedding actual tears. The silky cold dirt and sharp pebbles of the road
~ Janet Fitch
I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.
~ Timothy Olyphant
I will never unravel the mystery of how a script gets into the hands of certain people.
~ Steven Knight
By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
~ William Collins
It is quite moving to hold a piece of Mars in your hands and to reflect on its incredible interplanetary journey, and the science that gives confidence as to the origin of this unusual rock.
~ Steve Jurvetson
He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
~ Maria Montessori
Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.
~ Charles James
I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.
~ Jon Lech Johansen
Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I definitely have some stereotypical qualities of being a Latina. I talk with my hands, which means I knock stuff over all the time.
~ Bitsie Tulloch
Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that he doesn't.
~ Charles Soule
If you look at Keith Richards' hands, from the Rolling Stones, they're these gnarled, arthritic - it looks like people beat his hands with clubs. It's amazing there's so much character in his hands.
~ Tim Miller
Devona picked up my head-and-hands combo and perched me on her shoulder as if she were a vampirate and I her zombie parrot.
~ Tim Waggoner
Through his honor I conquered him. For these peasants carry their honor in their hands so that they may constantly consult it; this same honor that once felt so much at home in the city but now has taken refuge in a more rural setting.
~ Tirso de Molina
I feel very lucky, and the work that I do doesn't depend on much. If your vision's still good, and your hands - I have no arthritis in my hands, and I play the piano very easily - I don't think there's any reason to deprive oneself of the fun of working. Music is so rewarding.
~ John Williams
I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.
~ Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Life has always poppies in her hands.
~ Oscar Wilde
He did not wring his hands, as do Those witless men who dare To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave of black Despair.
~ Oscar Wilde
My gods dwell in temples made with hands.
~ Oscar Wilde
Suddenly a dog bayed in the wood, and the dancers stopped, and going up two by two, knelt down, and kissed the man's hands. As they did so, a little smile touched his proud lips, as a bird's wing touches the water and makes it laugh. But there was disdain in it.
~ Oscar Wilde
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
~ Ovid
When lizard-footed giants climbed the hills And with a hundred hands clawed at the sky.
~ Ovid