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.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions – the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light.There you go . . . That was easy!

I can’t think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare ‘highbrow,’ because on the one hand, it’s brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.

I understand,” she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he’d become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration.

Better a live dog than a dead lion.

t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars.

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.

Tawny ports have already spent 20 or 30 years in wood – it’s not likely they’re going to improve. On the other hand, they’re not going to get any worse.

…your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I’m always turning over…

Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires.

For better or for worse, I’ve watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they’re not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody’s hand. And that’s real to me.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

My gun trainer on the first ‘G.I. Joe’ gave me about a week of commando training, so I got to shoot every single machine gun and hand gun there was.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.

If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

I measured the length of my hand today, and just as I thought, it’s exactly as long as my other hand. I was so excited I started clapping.

Hazel blue anemone in a little SeaSide cave…drawing currents from the sea turquoise blue on sparkling waves. In ocean dreams, the poet waits by his grotto, passing days. Rhyming verse, his mind creates where his smiling Sea Nymph plays. The lapping seas of emerald green stir the poet’s fantasy neath crystal skies aquamarine and cotton...

Just take my hand, lead, dance with me…and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free…where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again…in long and priceless moments of shared solitude…

Jo’s whimper rose slightly but the scream she yearned for wouldn’t materialise. Instead, as she looked at her hand, she began to make a gurgling, gagging noise, more animal than human.

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son’s death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

Before the operation on my left hand I wasn’t able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I’ve never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn’t any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.

Life does not hand refined golds to us but golds hidden under the garment of the earth

Our aim is to establish El Cartel as not just another tequila but part of the club and party lifestyle. There are several songs where I mention the brand name, and a lot of these party songs go hand in hand with the concept of Cartel Tequila.

The cool thing about vests is they have no sleeves. I guess their target market is people with no arms. Raise your hand if you disagree.

The faithfulness of the Lord is so great that no mind can comprehend it, no hand can fold it, no mouth can describe it and no experience can compete with it. All that our hearts will need, His hands will provide!

When the brain thinks positively, the hands work positively, the legs run positively and the individual becomes a positive wholesome entity.

I have so many friends I couldn’t even count them on one hand—not even if I had six fingers. Now, if I had seven fingers, I could count on them, but I still wouldn’t be able to count on my friends.

Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality its left.

I like circle time and school drop-off. And I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

Shows like ‘Top Chef,’ ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be cautious it doesn’t get out of hand.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

It is at the times when I feel that I have nothing that the gem lies in the palm of my hand.

You need help when you’re starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

I’m the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn’t compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter’s gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Why you?- (…) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life...

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.