Quotes About Hands

The Cancer Society here in Nova Scotia is doing nothing, and money is being wasted. I would love to get my hands on the people in Halifax.

I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.

There are two ways that lack of sleep affects my play: I'll play too many hands and I'll lose the ability to effectively read my opponents.

We cannot play soccer without hands. You need your arms while running.

The benefit of fast play is that you'll get players to commit their chips with relatively weak hands since it will be hard for them to believe that you have a strong hand every single time. The downside is that your opponents will raise weak when you have nothing at all, forcing you to fold.

Ultra-aggressive players have a knack of making otherwise sound players commit huge stacks of chips with relatively weak hands, like A-Q.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.

I've been hanging out with some really good football players and having a few more opportunities to have the ball in my hands, and I think it really just comes down to those things.

Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not responsible for the final product, which is why it's always a pleasure when you see it's in the hands of the people afterwards putting it together.

In the pocket, I usually keep two hands on the ball.

I hate stuff in my pockets, can't stand it. I'll carry stuff in my hands rather than put it in my pockets.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

People always want to compare their hands to mine. Pretty much everywhere I go.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.

I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.

I don't swing with my knees. I swing with my hands.

It was a large cardboard letter-file, old and faded but intact. I passed it to Wolfe, and he opened it with the deliberate and friendly exactness which his hands displayed towards all inanimate things.

I liked to put my hands on work that had been blessed by good minds and the passing of time.

Silence held him in its cold and gentle hands.

A woman in the coda of life, raising her eyes and lifting her hands in that moment just before fear turns into knowledge.