#hand

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#government #had #hadn #hands-on #i

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands. ↗

— Amy Alcott

#bushes #cans #chipping #club #country

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything. ↗

— Beck

#everything #long #long period #period #shorthand

I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#against #airplay #anything #artists #because

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#contemplation #cutting #cutting edge #edge #grasped

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #dead #democracy #else #everything

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. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#craves #ear #eye #familiar #hand

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. ↗

— Richard Bach

#gift #hands #problem #you

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. ↗

— Jane Austen

#handsomer #happens #she #sometimes #ten

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody. ↗

— David Axelrod

#arriving #ballots #being #counted #custody