Handful Quotes - Page 3

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

  Dalai Lama

  Trouble Maker, Troublemaker, Billions

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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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• 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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• 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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• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  Zac Efron

  Thinking, Careers, Odds

  "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 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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• '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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• Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

  Barbara Bush

  Boys, Trust Me, Five

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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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• I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. Small, bluish tubers that don’t look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. “Katniss,” I said aloud. It’s the plant I was named for. And I heard my father’s voice joking, “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

  Suzanne Collins

  Father, Plants Growing, Voice

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.47, Scholastic Inc.

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• Any messages for me?" Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person. "Yes. Hold on." She pulled out a handful of pink tickets and recited from memory, without checking the paper. "Seven forty-two a.m., Mr. Gasparian: I curse you. I curse your arms so they wither and die and fall off your body. I curse your eyeballs to explode. I curse your feet to swell until blue. I curse your spine to crack. I curse you. I curse you. I curse you.

  Ilona Andrews

  Memories, Fall, Blue

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.38, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

  George S. Patton

  War, Army, Winning

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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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• 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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• Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Lying, Heart, Land

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• It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Different, May, Metaphor

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.192, New Directions Publishing

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• Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too." [She] showed me the handful of bullets she'd had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married...) to my father. "You have to understand how little I was raised to expect that I desired in life, honey. Remember- I come from a different time and place... and you have to understand how much I love your father.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, Father, Order

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• A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Rocks

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Teenager, Funny Relationship

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Love, Weed, Hard Work

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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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• 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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