Hand Quotes

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.