If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Rex Stout
HomeMeStoryTelevisionChessHand
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
Paul Engle
MotherMemoryBedChristmasHand
I don't have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.
Jeremy Sisto
PracticeAttentionHandSpan
I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.
Brian Helgeland
CoolWritingThinkSpeechHandBox
My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
Eva Zeisel
EyeHandAttractWellDesignsMeant
You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.
Owen Hart
SchoolYouBackGoHandBecome
In life, usually, even if you live in a big city, you can count on your fingers on one hand how many real friends you have; that's human.
Rodrigo Santoro
LifeLiveCityFriendsYouHand
'Ouija' has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously, and few admirable genre elements. It renounces the faux-found-footage ShakyCam style, instead employing a traditionally smooth visual style.
Richard Corliss
StyleYoungSeriouslyHandSteady
The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand and justify it every year. Well, I see it as the greatest economic driver that there ever was. Economic drivers don't need justification.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
HatPeopleProblemYearNASAHand
When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.
Jenny Han
YouHandWayIntimacyNeverWrite
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Bret Harte
BirdHandCertaintyMaySingBush
My job is to rectify the public finances and hand the country back to the people so they can really have a future, and that is what I will do.
Enda Kenny
FutureJobPeopleBackCountryHand
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Napoleon Bonaparte
InevitableBuildHandMoreFollow
Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.
Ronald Kessler
TrustEnoughHandCompanyCapital
There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'
Marilyn Monroe
FriendGirlWomanHatNewHand
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
Marcel Proust
MemoryChanceFindDangerousHand
Familiarize yourself with the resources at hand to combat online bullying, and report offenders as often as you need to. Don't hesitate to report and block.
Jenna Wortham
BullyingYourselfYouHandNeed
We have been dealt a very weak hand by the financial market meltdown, bailouts, and recession. We can't act like it's a strong one.
John Delaney
StrongFinancialHandWeakActBeen
While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
Boyle Roche
SwordHandWritePistolLetter
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Elizabeth Hardwick
PowerCityLanguageGenerationHand
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
BrainyHandPureGloveCoverNeeds
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.
Roy H. Williams
ArtistHandImageMentalTool
If you don't perform, and you're part of the team, whether you're playing your first Test or 50th Test match, criticism goes hand in hand, so that's something you can't really get away from. If you don't perform, you will be criticised.
MS Dhoni
TeamCriticismYouTestWillHand
If you asked a Singaporean, on the one hand they'll say, 'Let us do our own things.' On the other hand, when an issue comes out, they'll ask, 'What is the government doing about it?'
Lee Hsien Loong
GovernmentDoingYouSayHandAsk
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