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Quotes About Handshake

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.
~ Paul Ince
We had a friendly conversation, the man shook my hand, told me to keep my spirits up........ The next day......He stared ahead as he went past, as much a stranger as possible. In his behaviour the man probably represents 79 million Germans.
~ Victor Klemperer
Fat fate's formal handshake () brought me out of my torpor; and I wept. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury - I wept.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
When I'm in social situations I always hold onto my glass. It makes me feel comfortable and secure, and I don't have to shake hands
~ Larry David
Here he shook hands with me; not in the common way, but standing at a good distance from me, and lifting my hand up and down like a pump handle, that he was a little afraid of.
~ Charles Dickens
It looked like this: "You must be Rafe and Mrs. Khatchadorian," she said. "Yes," Mom said, sounding more annoyed by the second. "And you are?" When the lady reached over and shook Mom's hand, I'm pretty sure I heard some knuckles crunching. "Vice Principal Charlotte P. Stonecase
~ James Patterson
I've shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest's.
~ Shakira
The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, like, this fake rubber rat that he kind of, you know, shook at me. You know, and I said, 'No, this is a cliche - this can't be. Stephen King is trying to scare me with a fake rat?' It was just really weird.
~ Rob Reiner
but we know in the South that the real purpose of manners is to make life easier for everyone, easier both to keep to oneself and to avoid the uneasy commerce of offense and even insult. Either one shakes hands with someone or one ignores him or one kills him. What else is there?
~ Walker Percy
Hello, Madhav,' Mr Somani said. He shook my hand in an extra-friendly way, as if to compensate for the doubts of a few seconds ago.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.
~ Harold Edgerton
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
~ Lee Iacocca
Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other's right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public.
~ Letitia Baldrige
I shake everybody's hand before the game, but Oklahoma City, they don't shake hands. Only some of them, but I don't think they really shake hands before the game.
~ Metta World Peace
We all shook hands, and the policeman, having retrieved a piece of chewing-gum from the underside of a chair, where he had parked it against a rainy day, went off into a corner and began to contemplate the infinite.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Sir Thomas extended three fingers. Jimmy extended two, and the handshake was not a success.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
me in. A thickset man, 40s, swarthy, unshaven, in a loose v-neck t-shirt and carefully distressed and torn jeans came round from behind a desk piled high with scripts and shook my hand.
~ William Boyd
I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich.
~ Hugo Chavez
When her long fingers clamped around Michelle's in a handshake, Michelle wondered if the woman used to call herself Carl.
~ David Baldacci
Their handshake looked, for the first split-second he looked, like C.T. was jacking off and the little girl was going Sieg Heil.
~ David Foster Wallace
You've heard about the knitter's handshake? Two hands go in for the grab-and-shake, but at the last minute, they veer to the closest sleeve or band and grab it instead while we ask, "Did you knit this?
~ Unknown
Nathan kissed Madeline on the cheek and shook Ed's hand enthusiastically. He took an ostentatious relish in the civility of his dealings with his ex-wife and family.
~ Liane Moriarty
When they shook hands, it felt like a promise had been made. A commitment. "Now," Ethan said, "where do you keep the guns?" Ravenel's brows shot upward. "Ransom, if you don't mind, I prefer easing into a new topic with a transitional phrase or two.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I was at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, and I was performing at a show there. Jimmy Carter was going to be coming through with his Secret Service detail. The manager pulled me aside, and they didn't want me to shake Jimmy Carter's hand because they were afraid it would make the news if I stole from him.
~ Apollo Robbins