Best shapes & hands Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.”

Want Use Hands Sound Shapes Mold Sculptors Clarifying

“The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.”

“Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.”

People Hands Law Values Order Culture Rights Policy Judging Shapes Strikes Public Policy Constitutional Rights

Author:Orrin Hatch

“The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.”

Hands Form Given Materials Shapes Impress Mechanic Innate Predetermined

Book:Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare

Source: Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare

“Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record of the minds that conceived them and the hands that crafted them.”

Mind Made Hands Memories Records Doors Color Shapes Window Architecture Roof Slopes

Author:Anthony Lawlor

“Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.”

People Ifs Wells Hands Care Streets Shapes Gun Don't Care I Don't Care Kicking Punching

Author:Bruce Lee

“We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.”

Knows World Feels Use Hands Form Mother Growth Nature Shapes Tasks Strive Wide Checks Barriers Rude Centre Prudent Wanton Deformity Pow Prunes Uncouth

Author:John Armstrong

“People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.”

People Thinking Should Looks Hands Might Women Views Like You Type Shapes Should Have Agree Point Of View Feminine Skinny

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive ... ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief ... Let me blow the dust from off you ... Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In a dead queen's hand.”

Hands Lying Half Darkness Air Fans Shapes Let Me Breaths Blow Dust Queens Cradle Elusive

Book:Sun-up, and Other Poems

Source: Sun-up, and Other Poems

“There is one god, greatest among gods and men, who bears no similarity to humans either in shape or thought... but humans believe that the gods are born like themselves, and that the gods wear clothes and have bodies like humans and speak in the same way... but if cows and horses or lions had hands or could draw with the hands and manufacture the things humans can make, then horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, cows like cows, and they would make the gods' bodies resemble those which each kind of animal had itself.”

Ifs Men Way Believe Humans Kind Body Hands Form Religion Speak Born Animal Bears Morality Shapes Clothes Draws Horse Lions Cows Similarity

Author:Xenophanes

“The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.”

Feels Made Ideas Reason Feelings Hands Doubt Failing Poet Shapes Skins Impression Reason Why No Doubt Texture Matthew

Book:Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age

Source: Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age

“I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".”

Thinking Wells Made Hands Certain Shapes Creating Pointing Noticing

Author:Matthea Harvey

“All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.”

Mind Art Feelings Hands Eye Moving Form Father Left Memories Seeing Car Shapes West Defined Hills Landscape Sensations Touching Riding Sculpture Hollow Texture Thrust Sculptors

Book:A Pictorial Autobiography

Source: A Pictorial Autobiography

“in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.”

“The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.”

Art Stories Hands Answers Novel Effects Reader Shapes Longing Patterns Wit Dramatic Significance Paradox Short Story Primitive Craving

Author:V. S. Pritchett

“Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.”

Men Giving Mind Hands Form Color Painting Shapes Paper Essence Bases Edges Drawing Command Outlines

Author:Alexander Eliot

“It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.”

Men World Ideas Hands Able Form Science Lying Given Steps Knowledge Shapes Spring Add Strikes Stores Bread Interpretation Predecessors

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

“They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the most critical issue of the last century is thus history at its best. Thompson's judicious and delicious depiction of Nitze and Kennan will fascinate anyone who cares about the Cold War or the ways that human beings shape the future.”

Way Humans Two War Ends Hands Care Lasts Human Beings Issues Century Cold Shapes Argument Critical Cold War Delicious Who Cares Old Friends Skillful Depiction

Author:Jonathan Alter

“The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.”

Character Helping Hands Would Be Truth Doubt Objects Shapes Illusion Proof Mediums Colour No Doubt Reflecting Trifling Fluctuation

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic.”

Different Hands Action Certain Individual Church Shapes Fingers Satisfied Occasions Characteristics Bags Sentiments Offering Dropping Collectors Velvet

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“With the softest hand, you can shape the hardest rocks!”

Hands Rocks Shapes Hardest

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the hand that raised up obscenities and blasphemies. Man was the pariah-dog, the moral leper in this translucent mirror of Heaven. He was the muddier of crystal waters, the despoiler of forests, the murderer of the innocent, the challenger against God. He was the assassin of the saints and the prophets, for they spoke of what he WOULD NOT HEAR, in the darkness of his spirit!”

Source: Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

“You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.”

Knows Hands Order Nature Rocks Periods Shapes Safe Eternity Leaving Casts Boards Wheels Sand Why Not Pilots Almighty Nails Harbors Anchors Voyages Celestial Port Steers Reefs

Author:Peter Marshall

“I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting.”

“The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with its shape and made-ness, while my poems have become more and more free. The first word of every poem might be "Yes." The next words: "And then."”

Firsts Made Hands Might Next Grows Shapes Lighters Saturated

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.”

People World Want Wells Done Hands Moving Common Fire Fields Shapes Tasks Clean Rhythm Dust Bags Evident Harvest Mud Well Done Parlor

Book:Circles on the Water

Source: Circles on the Water

“Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.”

Humans Body Hands Beautiful Language Movement Expression Shapes Visuals Human Body Expressive Facial Facial Expression Body Movement

Book:Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

Source: Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

“[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.”

Men Giving Matter Philosophy Hands Universe Goal Amount Shapes Mathematical Academic Coats Spiders Spit Affirming

Book:Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939

Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939

“The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.”

Source: Milton's Poetical Works: Together with the Life of the Author

“I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.”

Thinking Hands Pieces Design Ready Shapes Touched Cherish Museums

Author:Eva Zeisel

“Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.”

Kind Play Hands Bigs Shapes Research Focused Managers Pricing Discrepancies

Author:James Russell Lowell

“I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work. I love helping to shape a book, and I feel very privileged to get to do that with writers I'm excited about. I think doing that work for the past six years has changed me, and it better prepared me for the questions and suggestions.”

Thinking Feels Years I Can Book Helping Hands Past Changed Shapes Six Prepared Excited Editors Editing Privileged Suggestions

Author:Danielle Dutton

“If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material. For the most part, they'll simply forge an object that signifies something "real" in the world, even if that something is as abstract as an emotion or an energy. A child, on the other hand, will just as often produce something totally without semiotic meaning, a shape or a mass that represents nothing that exists outside of their imagination. Or else, they'll eat it or throw it or ignore it, wholesale.”

Ifs World Children Real Hands Energy Imagination Emotion Objects Produce Materials Shapes Mass Adults Abstract Representatives Clay Lumps Raw Materials Wholesale Something Real Semiotics

Author:Keith Murray

“At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.”

Ifs Writing Trying Has Beens Hands Age Wanted Young My Own Fronts Painting Shapes Young Age

Author:El-P

“Boxing is really hard because you have to be in really good shape to have all those rules and just using your hands.”

Hard Hands Shapes Boxing

Author:Bonnie Canino

“I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.”

People Want Hands Government Economy Democracy Shapes Sufficient Retaining

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“With couture you have faithfulness - people are faithful to you. In couture, you will see that the cut looks like a lace dress from a distance, but it's only when you get nearer you understand that it's layers of lace, hand stitched in a certain shape, all the work - the zips, the buttons, the hooks... it goes on.”

People Looks Hands Certain Cutting Goes On Shapes Dresses Distance Faithful Have Faith Layers Buttons Hook Faithfulness Lace Zips Couture

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.”

“The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.”

“You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.”

Trying Kind Different Hands Spiritual Joy Spirit Language Water Laughing Wind Shapes Opening Clarity Dust Different Kinds Closing

Author:Rumi

“Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter.”

World Hands Force Dark Loss Secret Worry Shapes Weapons Laughter Confusion Uncertainty Dark Forces

Author:Vera Nazarian

“When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception.”

People World Way Writing Trying Believe Moments Hands Lying Left Language Nations Process Shapes Historical Myth My Way Conception Dogma Motto Slogans Recognise Elimination Second Hand Warp

Author:Zadie Smith

“She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.”

Feelings Hands Pleasure Animal Pieces Shapes Touched Sheer Curves Sculpture Fingertips Porcelain

Book:The Shell Seekers

Source: The Shell Seekers

“I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.”

Want Sometimes Hands Beautiful Form Fun Tears Shapes Comfortable Draws Garden Burden Humble Ugly Admiration Awkward Shells Familiarity Tenacity Resent Gloves Adaptability Oysters Slate

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“- he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.”

Hands Faces Numbers Shapes Silent Finished Clock Bells Bent Worthless Alarms Meaning Nothing

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“What do you think? Does everything look right? " " You really expect me to look at anything but you? " She laughed even as her pulse jittered. " Boy, I must be in bad shape when a shopworn line like that hits the mark. " " I mean it, " he said and watched her smile fade. " I adore looking at you. " Laying a hand on her knees with a long, slow, thorough kiss. " Beautiful Margo. mine. " " Well, you're certainly taking my mind off my ... kiss me again. " " Glad to.”

Thinking Mind Wells Looks Mean Long Doe Said Hands Beautiful Lines Boys Mines Shapes Kissing Mark Glad Knees Laughed Fades Adore Pulse Thorough Kiss Me Her Smile

Book:Nora Roberts' Dream Trilogy

Source: Nora Roberts' Dream Trilogy

“Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.”

Hands Grows Growing Up Shapes Faster Midnight Hang In There

Book:The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.”

World Stories Hands Certain Names Lost Color Shapes Weight Size Places In The World

Book:The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“He took something out of his jacket and handed it to her. It was a long thin dagger in a leather sheath. The hilt of the dagger was set with a single red stone carved in the shape of a rose. She shook her head. "I wouldn't even know how to use that--" He pressed it into her hand, curling her fingers around it. "You'd learn." He dropped his voice. "It's in your blood." She drew her hand back slowly. "All right." "I could give you a thigh sheath to put that in," Isabelle offered. "I've got tons." "CERTAINLY NOT," said Simon.”

Knows Giving Long Said Use Hands Voice Know How Blood Shapes Red Stones Rose Fingers Jackets Leather Thighs Daggers

Book:City of Bones: TV Tie-in

Source: City of Bones: TV Tie-in

“It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing under the rustic colonial clock and stared. He was drinking champagne. There were strings coming out from all around me, reaching out, waving in the air. Someone passed him a brownie. He held it in his hand but did not eat. He saw my shape and face, which had not changed-the hair still parted down the middle, the chest still flat and hips undeveloped-and wanted to call out my name. It was only a moment, and then I was gone.”

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