“That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.” MadeHandsThreeEffortAudienceFourFeetSeriousIntellectualRhythm Author:Eduard Hanslick
“Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.” MayLittlesEnoughHandsIndividualEasyInterestingAttentionAchieveParticularSeriousTasksEncouragementGood ThingsCurrentsCreditMoodEndlessPessimismTrailsCalumnyImitatorSoon EnoughCalumny Is Book:Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958 Source: Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958
“I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.” TryingHandsSeriousKissingGravesBlandCourtiers Author:W. S. Gilbert
“I was fuzzy on the details, but I knew the basic outline. I knew how I wanted to be, it was simply a question of being who I wanted to be.I thought I had had it all figured out before. I'd had the plan perfectly clear in my head. I wasn't going to cross into thirty without the triple crown in hand: serious boyfriend, career, and great friends..It was time to accept that maybe, just maybe, I didn't have to have it all figured out by the time I turned thirty. Maybe I could just work on me, and see what else fell into place.I was pretty sure that was otherwise known as living.” HandsWantedKnownAcceptingCareersClearPlansSeriousCrossesDetailsThirtyCrownsOutlinesGreat FriendFuzzy Author:Megan Crane
“A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you can get your hands on so you can become familiar with different forms of writing: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism. That's very important. And also keep a journal. Not so much, because it's good writing practice. Although it is, but more because it's a wonderful source of story starters.” WritingFirstsImportantDifferentStoriesHandsKidsFormFictionPracticePiecesWonderfulAdviceSeriousSourceCoupleFamiliarJournalismJournalNon FictionGood WritingWriting FictionStarters Author:Ann M. Martin
“If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.” IfsEndsHandsTurnsLeftSidesMiddleFrontsSeriousAnd OffLeft HandOverdrive Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan
“On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.” IfsLooksPersonsHas BeensHandsAttentionCasesIssuesOur LivesCrazyCrimeSeriousLike YouToughVictimHarmHonestly Author:Bill James
“Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference.” IfsHandsActionDifferencesMy OwnSeriousOptimismPlanesMaking A DifferenceCrashPlane Crashes Author:Amanda Ripley
“When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.” PeopleMeanImportantProblemHandsGamesSocialLaughingTroubleSeriousJokesEndureIntenseNormGrievance Author:Marshall McLuhan
“I have set a standard, and I'm going to stick to the standard. I may have been able to grow faster and maybe my business could have been bigger, but because I really feel very serious about my subject, I really want to be hands-on.” WantFeelsMayHas BeensHandsAbleGrowsSubjectsSeriousStandardsBiggerSticksFasterCould Have Been Author:Martha Stewart
“The Fed is pushing a variety of workarounds that would inject trillions in new money into the economy while bypassing the banking system altogether. Time will tell whether or not this will succeed. Meanwhile, a serious danger lurks around the corner. Once the recession is over, the lending will start again. With fractional-reserve banking and limitless supplies of cash on hand, we will likely see the overall price trends reversed, from deflation to inflation to possible hyperinflation.” HandsEconomyDangerSeriousSucceedCornersVarietyPushingFedsTrendsCashReservesBankingInflationLimitlessSuppliesRecessionsLendingAround The CornerBanking SystemDeflationTime Will TellHyperinflation Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“Telephone handsets are particularly in need of built-in security. We have almost every aspect of our personal and work lives reflected on them and we lose them all the time. We leave them in taxis. We leave them on airplanes. The consequences of one of these devices falling into the wrong hands are very, very serious.” NeedsHandsFallLosesSecuritySeriousConsequenceBuiltAspectDevicesAirplaneTelephonesTaxi Author:Matt Blaze
“My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce 's 'The Big House.' And a hand grabs my shoulder, 'Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.' It's a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can't.” ShowsHandsBigsFacesHouseStepsStageNew YorkSeriousDecidedShouldersFlewKevinSmackBig Houses Author:Kevin Hart
“Kevin Bacon and I recently worked on a move together, R.I.P.D. Just before we'd begin a scene, when all of us would feel the normal anxiety that actors feel be- fore they start to perform, Kevin would look at me and the other actors with a very serious expression on his face and say: "Remember, everything depends on this!" It would make us all laugh. On the one hand, it's not true of course, but on the other, everything does depend on this, on just this moment and our attitude toward this moment.” FeelsLooksDoeMomentsHandsTogetherRememberFacesMovingCoursesActorsAttitudeLaughingSeriousExpressionDependsSceneNormalAnxietyLook At MeKevinRemembers Everything Author:Jeff Bridges
“It plays right into the hands of ISIS. And that's why Americans need to know that Donald Trump's words are being used in recruitment videos that ISIS is putting out. I think that is a very serious problem.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsPlayProblemHandsUsedSeriousTrumpVideoIsisRecruitment Author:Hillary Clinton
“We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy.” IfsHumansHeartHandsDesirePaySeriousMaterialsInvolvedTragedySacredGreedTemperHuman HeartHigh PricesFrivolity Author:Leonard Cohen
“I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because it's right, it must be victorious. On the other hand, you say, it's right whether it's victorious or not. And this is what I believe about a free society.” ThinkingBelieveHandsI BelieveSeriousFree SocietyAmbivalence Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.” PeopleHandsToo MuchSeriousTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“For America to get more entangled militarily in Syria is a serious step, and we have to do so making absolutely certain that we know who we are helping; that we're not putting arms in the hands of folks who eventually could turn them against us or allies in the region.” KnowsHelpingHandsAmericaCertainTurnsStepsSeriousArmsFolksWho We AreRegionsAlliesSyria Author:Barack Obama
“I grew up in Louisiana, and I grew up with a dysfunctional family with some very serious abuse from my stepfather, who could be a very beautiful person on one hand and be terrible on the other, so it leaves your soul troubled as a child.” ChildrenPersonsSoulHandsBeautifulSeriousGrewTerribleGrew UpAbuseYour SoulVery BeautifulLouisianaDysfunctional FamilyBeautiful PersonStepfathers Author:Tim McGraw