#hand

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#child #did #ever #hand #i

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar. ↗

— Joan Jett

#chords #diagram #guitar #hands #how

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#being #believe #chinese #chinese people #controlled

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#anymore #end #ever #everyone #experience

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#end #get #hands #i #into

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. ↗

— Elton John

#good-looking #handsome #i #myself #never

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#i #i can #kill #me #touring

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#ancestors #exhilaration #freedom #hands #into

Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band. It took me quite some time to discover that I wanted to write. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#darkroom #discover #going #hand #i

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place. ↗

— Holly Johnson

#been #conversation #every #going #handle