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Quotes About Hand

Suddenly with a single bound he leaped into the room. Winning a way past us before any of us could raise a hand to stay him. There was something so pantherlike in the movement, something so unhuman, that it seemed to sober us all from the shock of his coming.
~ Bram Stoker
We men are all in a fever of excitement, except Harker, who is calm. His hands are cold as ice, and an hour ago I found him whetting the edge of the great Ghoorka knife which he now always carries with him. It will be a bad lookout for the Count if the edge of that Kukri ever touches his throat, driven by that stern, ice-cold hand!
~ Bram Stoker
Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will! He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man.
~ Bram Stoker
The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me; with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.
~ Bram Stoker
As he went down the wall, lizard fashion, I wished I had a gun or some lethal weapon, that I might destroy him. But I fear that no weapon wrought along by man's hand would have any effect on him.
~ Bram Stoker
Confucius say, man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day
~ Sylvia Day
Doctor Gordon reached for the hand that hung at my right side and shook it.
~ Sylvia Plath
The young man in blue who had become his showpiece, a theater for Leopardo's passions, an irresistible echoing move also set hand to hilt.
~ Tanith Lee
The young man in blue who had become his showpiece, a theater for Leopardo's passions, in an irresistible echoing move also set hand to hilt.
~ Tanith Lee
I'll send three of Harnet's Di'taken. I have it on good authority that they think the sun shines out of my ass. Pole leaned forwards just enough to bring the major into his line of sight. Pole - All of them? Torrin - Some of them are officers and thus blinded by the sun shining out of their own asses. Pole - Did you just say that? Torrin - Yeah, Torrin offered him her hand. Get over it.
~ Tanya Huff
I screamed. You told me not to." He rubs at the soot on one hand with his thumb, then stares at it. "The dirt," he says, his voice strangely peaceful. "What about it?" she asks. "It's dirty.
~ Julianna Baggott
She touched the words with the tip of her finger and smudged the pencil and then saw how the smudge stayed on her finger. Words from his hand transferred to her skin.
~ Julie Cohen
Pido lo imposible, lo más inmerecido, lo que me atreví a hacer una vez cuando él vivía: pido que sea su voz la que asome aquí, que sea su mano la que escriba estas líneas. Sé que es absurdo y es imposible, y por eso mismo creo que él escribe esto conmigo, porque nadie supo mejor hasta qué punto lo absurdo y lo imposible serán un día la realidad de los hombres, el futuro por cuya conquista dio su joven, su maravillosa vida.
~ Julio Cortazar
Y los gestos del amor, ese dulce museo, esa galería de figuras de humo. Consuélese tu vanidad: la mano de Antonio buscó lo que busca tu mano, y ni aquélla ni la tuya buscaban nada que ya no hubiera sido encontrado desde la eternidad. Pero las cosas invisibles necesitan encarnarse, las ideas caen a la tierra como palomas muertas.
~ Julio Cortazar
A hand of smoke took his hand, started him downward, if it was downward, showed him a centre, if it was a centre, put it in his stomach, where the vodka was softly making crystal bubbles, some sort of infinitely beautiful and desperate illusion which some time back he had called immortality.
~ Julio Cortazar
oír el fragor de la luna apoyando contra su oreja la palma de una pequeña mano un poco húmeda por el amor o por una taza de té.
~ Julio Cortazar
It was in that hour of tribulation, however, that a hand reached out for her and she remembered who she was.
~ Junot Diaz
He stared at the coin in his hand, then at me. Then he ran. I've seen men running for their lives, but he was faster. Incentive is everything.
~ K.J. Parker
The productions of the mind and hand seem very numerous in books and manufactures. But all this variety lies in an exquisite subtlety and derivations from a few things already known, not in the number of axioms. VIII
~ Francis Bacon
Does the 'palm' of your hand ever share any cocoanuts?
~ Francis M. Faber Jr.
How many bones did he set?" I cared about it much less than they did. It's my Florence Nightingale calm, I suppose. There was a pause. "Twenty-seven," said Father. There was a question mark in that pause. "How many bones are in the hand?" Another pause. "Twenty-seven," said Eldric.
~ Franny Billingsley
I have to hold your hand to establish the connection," Cole said. "I bet you use that on all the girls," Violet replied. Cole noticed Harmony turning away to cover a laugh. Violet held out her hand. "Try not to fall in love," Cole said, gingerly touching a couple of her fingers.
~ Brandon Mull
The Sphinx extended a hand. Seth shook it. "One last thing, Seth. Are you aware that Midsummer Eve is scarcely a week away?" "Yeah." "Might I make a suggestion?" "Okay." "Don't open any windows.
~ Brandon Mull
That lighta above, the lunks from the sky. I head loudin about it that was you, outsida, eh? "Yeah" The girl turned as if to leave, but then reconsidered and put a hand on lift's arm. "You," the girl said to Lift. "Outsida?" "Yeah." "You listenin'?" "I'm listenin'." "People, they don't listen.
~ Brandon Sanderson