Handful Quotes - Page 2

Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

Langston Hughes

Dream, Stars, Clouds

Langston Hughes (2011). “The Dream Keeper and Other Poems”, p.76, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

Michael Chabon

Fire, Dust, Broken

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Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

Henry Miller

Peace, May, Abiding

Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.404, New Directions Publishing

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His suspicion that he was not going in the right direction tortmented him more and more. At last he had the conviction that he would never go anywhere but in the wrong direction, to the very end of the handful of days that was left to him, unhappy moonstruck pilgrim, whose April was to be cut off short.

Ismail Kadaré

Cutting, Unhappy, Lasts

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Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Song, Stars, Memories

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You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

Tom Robbins

Inspiration, Anxiety, Magic

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I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a handful of signposts that middle school existed at all.

Sloane Crosley

School, Oregon, Facts

Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.51, Portobello Books

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A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

Leo Tolstoy

Two, Twenties, Splits

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Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.

Nick Hornby

Men, Worry, Looks

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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

Barbara Bush

Boys, Trust Me, Five

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'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

Phil Collins

Song, Sweet, Urban Renewal

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I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

DMX

Block, Party, Rapper

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

Charles Dance

Romantic, Men, Landing

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I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'

Neil Gaiman

Writing, Dinosaurs, Blogging

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With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Fannie Lou Hamer

People, Cracks, Causes

"This Little Light of Mine". Book by Hay Mills, ch. 8, 1993.

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A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

Tony Kushner

Uncles, Drama, Heart

"Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

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Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

Dalai Lama

Trouble Maker, Troublemaker, Billions

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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

Anne Lamott

Cute, Mother, Giving Up

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The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

Jon Landau

Running, Song, Soul

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There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

Alexander McQueen

Games, Steps, Influence

"The Real Mcqueen" By Susannah Frankel, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 1, 2007.

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Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was Queen and he was King. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark they parted with leaves in their hair.

Nicole Krauss

Girl, Kings, Queens

"The History of Love". Book by Nicole Krauss (p.9), 2005.

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Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

Alan Moore

War, Responsibility, Power

"V for Vendetta". Book by Alan Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2008.

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Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

Jerry Saltz

Art, Stars, Independent

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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

Patti Smith

Years, Records, Littles

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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.

Alexis Arguello

Sports, Air, People

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