Palms Quotes - Page 12

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

David Hockney

Tree, Remember, Sometimes

"The Talented Mr Hockney". Interview with Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 15, 2001.

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Perhaps that is what life is all about—the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to feel it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand. And in that moment, we touch the face of God.

Garth Stein

Life, Hands, Order

Garth Stein (2014). “A Sudden Light: A Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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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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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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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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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

Andre Gide

Believe, Sleep, Night

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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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I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.

Nelson DeMille

Beach, Home, Gold

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If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand.

Maureen Howard

Family, Children, Father

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How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

Bob Dylan

Men, Hands, Politics

Song: Hurricane, Album: Desire

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I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.

Bruno Tonioli

Beach, Yoga, Years

"Me and my travels". Interview with Helen Ochyra, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

Chynna Phillips

Mother, Past, Psychics

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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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I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Love, Islands, Air

John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.319

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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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There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether.

Jim Palmer

Years, Gone, Quitting

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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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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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In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.

Brian Andreas

Dream, Angel, Hands

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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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Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

James Fallows

Beautiful, Order, Fans

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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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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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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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