Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.
By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.
You are five times more likely to be killed by your abuser if your abuser can get their hands on a gun. That`s not a small problem.
Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids.
In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.
It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.
Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.
He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth. The diva himself.
Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand?
Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?
With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.
They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!
It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.
If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.
Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands.
Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.
We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.
The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!
Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion.
Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.
With FX in particular, they've been fantastic and were really hands off. I mean, it helps that you've got Ridley Scott on your side.
Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.
No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.
I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.
Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.
Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.
I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
You know you were with the lessers, true?" Butch lifted one of his busted-up hands. "And here I thought I'd been to Elizabeth Arden.
I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.
you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.