#hand

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

I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything. ↗

— Dave Foley

#breaking #down #entertainment #everything #few

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do. ↗

— Charles Vest

#caused #changes #economic #every #fair

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#because #brain #coarse #connections #dog