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Quotes About Hand

Nichts zählt mehr, nur der Bass in meiner Hand, der Lärm in meinen Ohren. (2. Satz, 1. Kapitel)
~ David Levithan
Nichts zählt mehr, nur der Bass in meiner Hand, der Lärm in meinen Ohren.
~ David Levithan
The man beside me, apropos of nothing, raises his hand and says that there is 'a story' that man started society because he was 'cast out of a garden because of a sin.' He doesn't attribute this anecdote, leaving it a blind item from a source we might not know. He seems nice enough but potentially dangerous.
~ David Rakoff
Then the flight attendants, garbage bags in hand, glided down the aisle, looking each one of us square in the face and whispering, without discrimination, "Your trash. You're trash. Your family's trash.
~ David Sedaris
the man with one hand turned on an enormous radio and tuned it to a mastermix station where the songs are not sung so much as bleated. Bleated and repeated.
~ David Sedaris
They straddled the line between feral and civilized, licking the hand that fed them and attacking whatever it pointed to.
~ David Sosnowski
Thus set up, pen in hand, for the sake of greater truth, I would turn Portugal into a fiction. That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? What need did I have to go to Portugal? The
~ Yann Martel
The coach put his hand on Ken's knee.
~ Zane Grey
So is blurred so is blurred in me what white-haired gentleman separated once and for all and said this is the subject this is the object we fall asleep with one hand under our head and with the other in a mound of planets our feet abandon us and taste the earth with their tiny roots which next morning we tear out painfully
~ Zbigniew Herbert
No sé si usted ha sufrido una impresión semejante; pero cuando ella me extendió la mano y nos miramos, sentí que por ese contacto tibio, la espléndida belleza de aquellos ojos sombríos y de aquel cuerpo mudo, se infiltraba en una caliente onda en todo mi ser.
~ Horacio Quiroga
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
~ Howard Cosell
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Face-cream, hand-cream, nose-cream, eye-cream. I wondered for a moment how serious it would be if you ever got home drunk and accidentally put face-cream on your hands or hand-cream on your face.
~ Hugh Laurie
Power comes from body position in the form of leverage at delivery and the wrist and hand motion at release.
~ Unknown
He released her with obvious reluctance and shoved open his door, then came around to open her door. His chivalry brought an even broader smile. "Bet this doesn't last long", she teased. He took her hand. "You keep waiting for me to open it, and I will keep coming around.
~ Colleen Coble
He holds blood in his right hand," she whispered. "He will walk with death all his life.
~ Conn Iggulden
I keep it in there as a reminder and to keep temptation at hand. Temptation out of reach does you no good.
~ Craig Johnson
You got any glasses?" "What, you too good to drink out 'a the bottle?" I handed it to him and watched as he took a slug and then with a great deal of animation wiped off the mouth of the bottle with a flannel shirtsleeve I was sure hadn't been changed in a week.
~ Craig Johnson
I force a smile and hold up my hand, which must end up looking like some sort of strange, leery wince, like I've just swallowed a glass of somebody's urine and I'm recommending it.
~ Craig Silvey
Silver Avalanche coming up the driveway," calls Jeffrey from upstairs. "What are you, security?" I call back.
~ Cynthia Hand
I think that the sun*like rainbow growing out of the hand is open to many alternate positive interpretations. One may say it's the hand of the United Way bringing hope to people. But it helps signal that United Way is vibrant, exciting, colorful, positive and changing.
~ Saul Bass
There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.
~ Jo Bonner
Are you a lefty?" he asked with amiable interest. "No. But if this hand gets bitten off, I'll still have my good one to write with.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I saw the animal's body tense expectantly as he saw the treat in my palm. Unfortunately, it seemed in question as to whether the attraction was the biscuit or my hand.
~ Lisa Kleypas