“I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting on your bedroom floor, and staring at a picture of John Lennon or Gene Simmons or Johnny Rotten. That tangible experience can sometimes become an even more emotional experience, because it's really happening.” ThinkingSometimesHandsTechnologyHappenedEmotionalHappeningsSittingAlbumsStaringGenesBedroomConvenienceRottenTangibleLennonJohnny Rotten Author:Dave Grohl
“If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high building, either having fallen or jumped. That person is falling through space. You don't shoot that photograph unless the theme you are working on has to do with the effects of space on the human figure. If you simply photograph that event because it is an event that is happening, you're doing photojournalism.” IfsHumansPersonsHandsFallSpaceStreetsEffectsEventsFiguresBuildingReadyWalkingHappeningsCamerasPhotographFallenThemeLoadedPhotojournalism Author:Leonard Nimoy
“When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.” WritingHandsMy OwnHappeningsTunesMy Own Life Author:Jesse Harris
“Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.” KnowsWellsStillsImportantWholeFactsBodyHandsStuffPlayerExampleMusicianMusic IsHappeningsSittingTraditionalAssumptionMusclesLiteracyTransfers Author:Brian Eno
“I did not have a computer until recently. I'm not really a computer person; I'm really hands-on. I can't make it work if it's all behind the black curtain. It doesn't interest me. I want to see what's actually happening back there.” IfsWantPersonsI CanHandsBlackInterestBehindsComputerHappeningsCurtains Author:Scoot McNairy
“It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.” KnowsFeelsFirstsStatesFeelingsHandsLeftSoundVoiceCreativeRecordsCarBuildingHappeningsFirst TimeDown AndGuitarThings HappenPianoChords Author:Beth Nielsen Chapman
“I got offstage and was just looking at my hands, and they were shaking. I was like, 'I wanna kill someone! What's happening?'” HandsHappeningsShaking Author:Annie E. Clark
“I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats. I don't know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they'll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.” KnowsWayTryingDoeHandsPartyVictoryRepublicanHappeningsElectionDemocratDefeatRepublican Party Author:Benjamin Carson
“I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!” IfsWritingBelieveIdeasSometimesProblemHandsLosesWalksReturnHappeningsDon't BelieveBlockI've LearnedPencilsGood DayWriter's BlockDoodling Author:Judy Blume
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” LifeInspirationalHandsHappensMotivationalStrongWomenFreedomResponsibilityInspirational LifeTerribleHappeningsEthicsFemaleEmpowermentBlameManageBeing YourselfEmpoweringDecision MakingControlledWomen EmpowermentBe YouStrong WomenTaking ResponsibilityEmpoweredTerrible ThingsEmpowering WomenPersonal ResponsibilitySelf EmpowermentBeing A WomanOne WomanBeing StrongPowerful WomenIndependent WomenEmpowered WomenWomen Empowering WomenInspirational WomenInspirational Strong WomenWomen PowerJust Being YouBeing A Strong WomanStrong Women And LoveNemesisBlaming OthersStrong InspirationalStrong Independent WomenWomanlySelf ResponsibilityYour StrongResponsibility For Your LifeEmpowering LoveStrong IndependentResponsibilities In LifeTrue WomanBeing A LadyBlaming Yourself Author:Erica Jong
“The vast majority of Muslims would never accept the lawfulness of an active homosexual lifestyle. I don't see that happening. But there is also no authority in the tradition for any individual to take things into his own hands and impose their version of the religion on someone else.” HandsIndividualAcceptingAuthorityHappeningsTraditionMajorityActiveLifestyleVersionsHomosexualLawfulness Author:Hamza Yusuf
“Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.” DreamHandsTurnsOpportunityRealizingHappeningsWake UpLovelyGet OverBad DreamLovely Things Author:Shauna Niequist
“I mean, on one hand Rex Tillerson is correct, there are no plans to change the One China policy. But certainly that policy is on the table if China doesn't also come to the table and work with us on trade, work with us on the South China Sea on what's happening there.” IfsMeanHandsPlansSeaPolicyHappeningsTablesTradeSouthChina Author:Reince Priebus
“Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.” PeopleKnowsHardHandsHouseWhiteNumbersGroupsSourceNewsHappeningsOkayFollowingSecureEnterpriseWhite HouseDozenReportersCompetingFiniteOutletsImbalanceUpper Hand Author:Erik Wemple
“On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.” BelieveHandsI BelieveHappeningsBreakdown Author:Kathryn Bigelow
“But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost her nerve. Taking his hand, she pulled him toward her, near enough to feel his body against her. She looked up at him, tilting her head slightly as she leaned in. Mike, recognizing what was happening but still having trouble believing it, tilted his head and closed his eyes, their faces drawing near.” FeelsBelieveStillsEnoughBodyHandsEyeFacesNextLostTroubleHappeningsMachinesDrawingHis EyesNervesRecognizingMikeSlot Machines Author:Nicholas Sparks
“So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall.” IfsHandsLightMovingFaithFallFearRealizingSadnessFrontsAnxietyHappeningsShadowForgottenDearCloudsFrightenedPalms Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.” FirstsLooksHandsLastsDiesWaitingBlackBornVisionDarknessJourneyMinutesThousandElementsHappeningsShadowHorseConstantProfoundStrangerFlightClarityReachingShockReach OutBoresLast TimeGatheringDoorwaysEclipseClutchFirsts And LastsBends In The RoadElements Of Life Author:Victor Hugo
“Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.” WorldHeartMeanHandsFacesJesusPoorSeeingHappeningsSeekingAppearanceBreadContemplationDisguiseContemplativeDistressing Author:Mother Teresa
“The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing” is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don’t know, about something that is happening very close to them. For instance, you ought to know about the man who watches you when you sleep.” PeopleKnowsMenHandsLeftSleepWatchesOughtHappeningsInstancePhrases Author:Daniel Handler