4,258 Quotes About Hands

  • Author Patti Smith
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    I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

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  • Author Patti Smith
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    Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

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  • Author Patti Smith
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    Ms. It sounds like a sick bumblebee, it sounds frigid. I mean, who the hell would ever want to stick his hand up the dress of somebody who goes around calling herself something like Ms.? It's all so stupid.

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  • Author Patti Smith
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    For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.

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  • Author Patti Smith
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    People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.

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  • Author Paul Simon
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    The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.

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  • Author Percy Bysshe Shelley
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    Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

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