#handed

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house. ↗

— Ty Pennington

#first #hammer #handed #house #i

Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton. ↗

— Dom DeLuise

#baton #bugle #conduct #corp #drum

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#american people #any #handed #money #other

I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you. ↗

— LL Cool J

#around #because #get #go #handed

Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist? ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#around #before #crew #directing #early

Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking,' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#because #call #cooking #dad #got

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#autograph #door #fame #handed #i

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#change #characters #choose #count #friends

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler. ↗

— Jack Kirby

#chocolate #go #handed #hitler #i

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#dead #fantasy #fiction #hard #i