#hands

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#hooks #no-hands #viewfinder #love

When the rich wage war, it's the poor that die.. ↗

— Linkin Park

#lyrics #rich

He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a necromancer's bells! Apart from that, he was quite handsome, which was another black mark as far as she was concerned. ↗

— Garth Nix

#handsome #ragamuffin #arrogance

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#hand #hands #literature #literature-quotes #myself

I am the Hooray Distributor. Hold your hands flat, not like begging for money, but as if you’re about to applaud. Now clap, damn you.
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— Jarod Kintz

#applause #beg #begging #clap #clapping

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#come #conversation #especially #funny #great

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#could #disgust #hands #his #honor

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#architects #designed #hands #honorable #intentions

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#dearly #far #flatter #handsome #i

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary. ↗

— Edward Burns

#blue #creatures #crossed #director #effects