Hands Quotes - Page 36

• On the one hand, how many people do you need to love you before you feel OK about yourself?

  Jared Leto

  Love You, People, Needs

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• You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.

  Nick Offerman

  Cutting, Waiting, Actors

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• If you go to a therapist, they say, 'Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?' And I say, 'I don't know, because I don't really see them.' I see my hands, but I don't see my face, so it's not a torment. I only see it for five minutes in the morning when I brush my teeth! When you read women's magazines you always read about this drama of getting old, about anti-aging cream and plastic surgery and whatever else. But I think if you're independent, like I have grown to be, it's welcome.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Morning, Drama, Independent

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like old-fashioned romance, when the two people sleep in separate beds but still hold hands all night. Their hands rest on a little table between the beds.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Sleep, Night, Two

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• 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

  Natalie MacMaster

  Thinking, Track, Singing

  "MacMaster sings in praise of the fiddle 'In My Hands'" by Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. November 8, 1999.

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• I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Stars, Garden, Thinking

  Interview with James Ellis, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

  Paulo Costanzo

  Kids, Thinking, Clothes

  "Royal Pains Q&A: Paulo Costanzo". The Morning Call Interview, www.mcall.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Now that I'm in 'Nashville,' the thing that I'm loving the most is co-writing. You walk into the room and you shake hands with someone you've never met before and you walk out four hours later and you've got this thing... sharing ideas and everything, it's almost magical, like a miracle.

  Chip Esten

  Writing, Nashville, Ideas

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• In 22 years of acting, I've only done two movies where I, personally, kill people. The Coens called me the Spanish Ballerina on (the No Country For Old Men) set, because every time I had the gun, when they called cut, I'd give it back and say, 'Take this s**t out of my hands!' There were laughing, like they couldn't believe I was supposed to be the villain.

  Javier Bardem

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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• Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.

  Ne-Yo

  Eye, Men, Guitar

  "Singer-songwriter Ne-Yo". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 16, 2011.

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• There were two auditions for The Social Network, one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?

  Armie Hammer

  Two, Paper, Wrecks

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• I try to do romantic gestures all the time. For instance, this morning I work up early -- earlier than I would have normally liked to have woken up. Elizabeth [Chambers] was still asleep, so I just laid in bed and cuddled with her for an hour. I just ran my hands over her body. It was nice.

  Armie Hammer

  Morning, Nice, Up Early

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• Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

  Barry Pepper

  War, Blessed, Fighting

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• Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Style, Execution, Done

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.87, Ravenio Books

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• The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Stupid, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.218, Modern Library

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• Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Holiday, Epic, Imagination

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• Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
  Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
  And marching single in an endless file,
  Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;
  To each they offer gifts after his will,
  Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;
  I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp
  Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
  Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
  Turned and departed silent. I too late
  Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Daughter, Morning, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Days”

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• Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Doors, Would Be

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.66

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• To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Kissing, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.231

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• The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mirrors, Guitar, Able

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'Talking'". Book edited by John W. Duffy, 2004.

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• Set we forward; let
  A Roman and a British ensign wave
  Friendly together. So through Lud's town march,
  And in the temple of the great Jupiter
  Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts.
  Set on there! Never was a war did cease,
  Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Book, Friendly

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.3068, Oxford University Press

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• Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe
  That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.
  Come, mourn with me for what I do lament,
  And put sullen black incontinent.
  I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land
  To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
  March sadly after. Grace my mournings here
  In weeping after this untimely bier.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Land

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.336, BookCaps Study Guides

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• What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

  William Shakespeare

  Feet, Bravery, Might

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.222, Hackett Publishing

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• That we would do
  We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
  And hath abatements and delays as many
  As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
  And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
  That hurts by easing.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hurt, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235

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• 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!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Suffering, Earth, Holy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

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