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My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get. -- Laurie Graham
Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And you'll know you missed it. You lose your love When you say the word MINE. -- Neil Young
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. -- T. S. Eliot
You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way. -- Bruno Mars
All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom. -- William C. Bryant
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. -- Mignon McLaughlin
There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game. -- Alexander McQueen
There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people. -- Anton Yelchin
I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. -- Mike Tyson
The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. -- Aaron Swartz
To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read. -- Bernie Sanders
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years. -- Paul Watson
I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.' -- Neil Gaiman
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. -- Charles R. Swindoll
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women. -- Lael Brainard
My daughter is a real migraine sufferer; the minute she has a handful of Haribo sweets, she gets a headache. There's a connection between what the liver can't break down with what goes on to trigger a headache. You just have to be aware. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas. -- Vint Cerf
Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world. -- Alexis Arguello
There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too. -- Tony Parsons
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. -- Anne Lamott
I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats. -- DMX
Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.' -- Max Greenfield
The people in my life are friends I have by choice. I've made a conscious effort to have them in life. I only have the time and energy for so many people, which has cut down my friend group to a handful, but I'm so much happier with fewer good people, who really do know me. -- Gillian Zinser
I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else. -- Jessie J
In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted. -- Zac Efron
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. -- Anne Lamott
a handful of crumpled stars -- Margaret Atwood
I was a handful growing up. -- Olivia Wilde
, and they could name a handful. -- Taylor Swift
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me. -- Barbara Bush
A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love. -- Tahereh Mafi
Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful. -- Dalai Lama
My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
That Loor's a handful, she is." - Spader (Black Water) -- D. J. MacHale
A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains -- Hobart Brown
A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe. -- David McCord
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning. -- George Herbert
I have played a handful of rounds of golf with Wayne Gretzky. -- Tom Glavine
I love Modern Family but it's among a handful of favorite shows. -- Tim Gunn
Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain. -- Confucius
Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most. -- Tim Ferriss
You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans. -- Tom Robbins
I bet you a handful of Chili's coupons that Jesus had a foot fetish. -- Corey Taylor
Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future. -- Steve Ballmer
It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down. -- Suzanne Collins
I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with. -- Richard Masur
Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever. -- William Friedkin
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. -- Mignon McLaughlin
It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile. -- Peter Lynch
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands? -- George Eliot
During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions. -- Michael Hastings
For God took a handful of blizzard snow, blew on it and created the horse. -- Elyne Mitchell
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars. -- Jack Kerouac
Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of. -- Christian Wiman
There was only a handful of guys who were even qualified to work at the WWE. -- Ric Flair
I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts. -- Rachel Vincent
I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires. -- Anderson Cooper
I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses. -- Scott Walker
A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful. -- Francine Prose
Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction. -- Val McDermid
I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. -- Anne Schroeder
The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends. -- Nicole Richie
Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity. -- Gloria Reuben
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. -- Scott Westerfeld
I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama. -- Jimmie Johnson
Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale. -- Langston Hughes
Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. -- Maxwell Perkins
Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died. -- Kim Harrison
The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views. -- Janeane Garofalo
Success is no magic; grab a handful of hope and never let it go till you get there! -- Israelmore Ayivor
A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love. -- Helen Steiner Rice
The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it. -- Woodrow Wilson
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat. -- Robert Browning
From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth. -- J. M. Coetzee
This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote. -- Vicky Hartzler
The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn. -- Coventry Patmore
There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful. -- Jason Reeves
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts. -- Charles Dance
So we keep asking, over and over,Until a handful of earthStops our mouths -But is that an answer? -- Heinrich Heine
After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines. -- Joseph Barbera
There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above, with a handful of faith and a heartful of love. -- Tim McGraw
There are only a handful of really good TV programmes, and I'm blessed to be in one of them. -- Peter Capaldi
It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful. -- Michael Jordan
The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy. -- Bernie Sanders
I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful. -- Mike Gordon
Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers. -- Henry David Thoreau
I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes. -- Claire Danes
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. -- Edwidge Danticat
A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system. -- John Stossel
I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement. -- Alexander Herzen
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible. -- A. A. Gill
Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do. -- Kevin Rose
I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky... -- Billy Collins
I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays. -- John Corbett
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them. -- Gloria Steinem
At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil. -- Roelof Botha
I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights. -- Daniel H. Pink
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world. -- Robert M. Pirsig
You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins -- Karrie Webb
Don't let the day go by without a handful of fun, for only those we'll be memorable and even intensified through time -- A.M.M Alusi
In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo. -- Louis C. K.
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. -- Tennessee Williams
Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. -- Harold Ramis
It is too disgusting to contemplate that a handful of men keep millions of women from being constitutional citizens of this land. -- Marguerite Rawalt
You can't go wrong with some nuts. The key word is 'some.' Eat them one at a time, not by the handful. -- Summer Sanders
Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of guys. -- Keyshawn Johnson
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. -- Marc Maron
As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God. -- Isaac of Nineveh
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. -- Karen Kain
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. -- Leo Burnett
At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers. -- Antonio Machado
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film. -- Molly Haskell
I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S. -- Barry Sternlicht
When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition. -- Robert Waterman McChesney

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