4,258 Quotes About Hands


  • Author Robert Barany
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    Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.

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  • Author Robert Benchley
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    At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

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  • Author Robert Bly
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    I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.

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  • Author Robert Bringhurst
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    Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.

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  • Author Robert Bresson
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    The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

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  • Author Robert Browning
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    There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.

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