Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
Kate DiCamillo
MeBookSayingLovedHandsYou
Okay, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I'm a very superstitious person. I'm walking onto the plane as we speak. I'm putting my hands on the outside of the plane and my feet are on the lip of the plane. I have to do it every time before I fly.
Jessica Chastain
TimeFlyFeetSpeakWalkingHands
For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.
Douglas Sirk
ChurchHandsHouseDirtyLos Angeles
Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the world are genuine victims, right now. All of us will be at some point, whether it's for small matters or large, for a long duration or short. But we aren't all victims, not all the time anyway, not for everything.
Kevin DeYoung
TimePeopleWorldSmallShortHands
Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.
Carnie Wilson
LifeChallengesHandsYouGoAccept
I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I just know the good Lord blessed me with ability, blessed me with good eyesight and a good pair of hands, and then I worked at the rest.
Tony Gwynn
GoodMeBlessedRestHandsCareer
In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized.
Sun Yat-sen
HandsAgricultureLaborDevelopment
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
Blaise Pascal
ManFeetThoughtHandsStoneI Can
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
PeaceHandsYouCannotFistShake
I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.'
John Carpenter
WorkImpossibleHandsYouSituation
Latin America's economies are organized in a way that concentrates wealth in a few hands but then leaves it untaxed, depriving governments of the resources needed to invest in their citizens' human capital.
Denise Dresser
AmericaHandsWealthWayHuman
I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.
Julie Doucet
CourageHandsThreeMachinesWashing
I feel respect is in your hands as an actor when portraying a character, particularly when it's from the Indian subcontinent. I do make a conscious effort to do so and often talk to the directors especially about the heavy accent when it's not needed.
Ajay Mehta
CharacterRespectEffortFeelHands
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
Robert Dallek
ActionFaceHandsPresidentSit
Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown never raised his hands above his head and never tried to surrender. He was killed in self-defense by Officer Wilson after Brown first attempted to take the officer's weapon away and then charged at him.
Peter T. King
PoliceHandsSurrenderPolice Officer
I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.
Bibhu Mohapatra
HopeGrowHandsGoddessMoreHead
It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
Ian Mckellen
CharacterFeetInterestingHandsWig
Madonna is the ultimate pop star of all time, hands down. She wrote the playbook for it. There is no female pop star - and probably few men today, for that matter - who are not indebted to her in one way or another for her contributions to the industry.
Jeremy Scott
TodayTimeMenHandsDownWay
We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.
Dede Gardner
WorldHandsPrivilegeNeedTellOur
It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.
James Hogg
DriveHandsSheepMoreCapable
I always hated watching cooking shows where the chef would use ingredients that I couldn't get my hands on, cooking implements that I couldn't afford, recipes that I could never have access to.
Adam Richman
CookingChefHandsNeverWatching
Just take yourself back to September 2001. As that month went on, and as that autumn unrolled, everybody wanted to do something. How can I help? Do you want my blood? Do you want money for the victims? I was a captain in the Marine Corps. I knew what I could do. I was right there. I was ready. I saw it. I moved the rubble with my own hands.
Rob Riggle
MoneyYourselfHelpHandsYouBack
Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.
Perry Como
MeDoingHandsBodyLookActing
When I was pregnant, I did Kundalini yoga. It was all closing your eyes, dancing around, and putting your hands together to form birth canals for people to pretend to be a baby coming out.
Alex Kingston
EyesTogetherPeopleBabyHandsOut
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