#hand

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. ↗

— Eminem

#everything #fantasy #goes #handed #having

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands. ↗

— Abdallah II

#arab world #future #hands #new #our

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#business #employment #extent #field #get

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet. ↗

— Steve Rasnic Tem

#carpentry #childhood #dancing #dreams #fantasy

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#bottle #case #handy #i #i see

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#hand #hope #into #like #marriage

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#always #comes #disparaging #extent #gilt

The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#football #get #good #handle #i

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better. ↗

— Dario Fo

#been #better #carriage #could #driving

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#been #did #family #hand #knew