#hand

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#frequently #generally #hand #machine #more

I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand. ↗

— John Otto

#i #left #lines #play #read

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience. ↗

— Shirley Bassey

#audience #become #been #bite #eventually

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect. ↗

— James Payn

#effect #genial #hand #means #occasional

And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#betrayal #bush #case #deliberately #election

I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#confronting #discuss #first #germany #government

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely. ↗

— Truman Capote

#gift #god #hands #intended #solely

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#handmaiden #leisure

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#friends #himself #lazy #out #person

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other. ↗