Palms Quotes - Page 7

• I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.

  Jeri Ryan

  Fun, Gun, Hands

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• Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.

  Kirk Douglas

  Sky, Color, Rose

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• The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

  George Plimpton

  Basketball, Sports, Player

  George Plimpton (1994). “The Best of Plimpton”, p.48, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

  Norman Douglas

  Food, Artist, Perfect

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.312, Courier Corporation

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• Lift up your eyes upon
  This day breaking for you.
  Give birth again
  To the dream.
  Women, children, men,
  Take it into the palms of your hands.
  Mold it into the shape of your most
  Private need. Sculpt it into
  The image of your most public self.
  Lift up your hearts
  Each new hour holds new chances
  For a new beginning.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Children, New Beginnings

  Poem at 1992 Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies, delivered 21 January 1993

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• No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one of the most impactful influences on American writers, even if they don't know it. That's largely because she makes economy seem so easy. You could read several of her stories into a friend's voicemail box before you were cut off (and you should). You could fit one of her stories in this column. Some you could write on your palm.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Writing, Cutting, Years

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• This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Life And Love, Block

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.140, Penguin

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• We are most blessed when we see ourselves as we are seen by [the Savior] and know ourselves as we are known by Him. In this world, we do not really grasp who we are until we know whose we are. The Lord says, 'I will not forget you. I have graven you on the palms of my hands' (see Isaiah 49:15-16). He will never forget us nor our real identity. [And, neither should we ever] forget whose we are. We are His.

  Truman G. Madsen

  Real, Blessed, Hands

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• O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees It is a love in darkness wrought obedient to the unseen sun, longer than memory, a thought deeper than the graves of time. The turning spindles of the cells weave a slow forest over space, the dance of love, creation, out of time moves not a leaf, and out of summer, not a shade.

  Kathleen Raine

  Summer, Dream, Memories

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.19, SteinerBooks

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• There was once a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but — whack — his palm came on his head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

  Aesop

  Summer, Blow, Men

  "Æsop's fables; with drawings by Fritz Kredel".

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• Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

  Dai Vernon

  Believe, Moving, Magic

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• To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Flower, Hands, Water

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• Love Came....
  and became like blood in my body.
  It rushed through my veins and
  encircled my Heart.
  
  Everywhere I looked,
  I saw One Thing....
  Love's Name written
  on my limbs,
  on my left palm,
  on my forehead,
  on the back of my neck,
  on my right big toe...
  
  Oh, my friend,
  all that you see of me
  is just a shell,
  and the rest belongs to Love.

  Rumi

  Heart, Blood, Names

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• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

  Dan Fogelberg

  Girl, Guitar, Dancing

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• I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.

  Jim Palmer

  Hate, Spring, Sleep

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• Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.

  Jim Palmer

  Two, Three, Week

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• Jung Min’s palms are always sweating and he wears strange socks!

  Kim Hyung-jun

  Strange, Jung, Sock

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• The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical island - all waving palms.

  Vivian Jenkins

  Islands, Lines, May

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• For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

  Olof Palme

  Political, Democracy, Dignity

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• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

  George Eliot

  Running, Time, Travel

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1155, ShandonPress

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• I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

  Colin Firth

  Cutting, Swimming, Thinking

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• PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge. He paged through a book of promotional photos of himself, one of which was shot shortly after 911. It featured him holding a copy of the Bible upright in one palm while the Koran rose from the other the Twin Towers. Some of the record company people, they wouldn't let me put this out, ... They said it would be too controversial. But this picture is saying 'Look, they can stand together. Don't have to be no fight.'

  Beanie Sigel

  New York, Book, Fighting

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• In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

  Martin Ryle

  Daughter, Son, Two

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• I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Hair, Hands

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• Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

  Jim Palmer

  Sports, Losing, Given

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