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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. -- Laurence Sterne
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. -- Laurence Olivier
The computer has moved to the palm of our hands now. -- Brad D. Smith
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist. -- Kenneth Tynan
The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way. -- Brad D. Smith
If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be. -- Cliff Richard
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. -- Elias Canetti
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. -- William Blake
Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard. -- Robin Sharma
God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here. -- Joel Osteen
I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks. -- Jeri Ryan
To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand. -- Tiberius
Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand. -- Louise Jameson
And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them. -- Jesse Eisenberg
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. -- Albert Camus
Any of Bette Midler's concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the audience in the palm of her hands at all times and can switch emotions on a dime: Great singer, great actress, great comedian - fearless. -- Bryan Batt
Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime. -- Richard Kind
Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand. -- Quincy Jones
In the summer of 1991, I was on the first Lollapalooza tour. Nightly, I would watch Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell go out in front of a sea of people and within minutes have all of them in the palm of his hand. I have never seen anything like it since. -- Henry Rollins
An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand." -- Laurence Sterne
All of you, fare well, and may you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand." -- Robert Jordan
Let go yesterday and hold out for tomorrow, the future is in the palm of your hand." -- L.L. Caulton
Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,Be not afraid of my body." -- Walt Whitman
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist." -- Kenneth Tynan
May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home." -- Robert Jordan
It is at the times when I feel that I have nothing that the gem lies in the palm of my hand." -- Holly A. Smith
Mister hit Josephine with the palm of his hand across her left cheek and it was then she knew she would run." -- Tara Conklin
He stands there, facing the largest windows, touching the glass with the open palm of his hands, feeling everything, but seeing nothing." -- Katherine Owen
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words..." -- Yasunari Kawabata
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!" -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The palm of his hand was a dull red. Not a good sign.I jerk off left-handed, he thought, at least that's something." -- Stephen King
Mom once told me Aly had me wrapped around her little finger. She'd been wrong. Aly had held me in the palm of her hand." -- A.L. Jackson
He holds her with the strength of a million-man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the palms of his hands." -- Laura Kreitzer
She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her." -- Alice Walker
The notion of there being something greater than humanity can strike fear in the bravest of soldiers and cradle courage in the palm of a child's hand." -- Katlyn Charlesworth
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour." -- William Blake
He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair." -- Arundhati Roy
He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now." -- Jeffrey R. Holland
I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks." -- Jeri Ryan
Taking my hand, he rests it over his T-shirt, over his heartYou hold this in the palm of your hand. You are the only woman who has ever had it, and ever will. You own me, Tru." -- Samantha Towle
Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off." -- Mary Karr
I take his hand in mine, running my fingers over the palm. His hands are lovely and lean, and I can't help thinking about those hands on my body. The sexiest part of a man is his hands." -- Candace Bushnell
It (a singer's voice) sounds as if it was aged in a whiskey cask, cured in an Ozarks smokehouse, dropped down a stone well, pulled out damp, and kept moist in the palm of a wicked woman's hand." -- Michael Perry
I never felt magic crazy as thisI never saw moons knew the meaning of the seaI never held emotion in the palm of my handOr felt sweet breezes in the top of a treeBut now you're hereBrighten my northern sky." -- Nick Drake
Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left handNow let us return to light, safety, and society." -- Caroline Stevermer
I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand." -- Alice Hoffman
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things." -- Albert Camus
Any of Bette Midler's concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the audience in the palm of her hands at all times and can switch emotions on a dime: Great singer, great actress, great comedian - fearless." -- Bryan Batt
Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime." -- Richard Kind
Judge Rountree holds half my property in the palm of his hand." Denton's growl broke the silenceI'd appreciate if you didn't insult him at all, much less in his own home.""He named his children One, Two, Three, and Four," she saidHe deserves to be insulted." -- Deeanne Gist
As a teacher, Tengo pounded into his students' heads how voraciously mathematics demanded logic. Here things that could not be proven had no meaning, but once you had succeeded in proving something, the world's riddles settled into the palm of your hand like a tender oyster." -- Haruki Murakami
My heart tumbled in pieces at her feet as she chipped away at it with her wondrous ways, and it didn't form a whole again until half a year had passed and the end product was a living, beating organ in the palm of her hands." -- Fisher Amelie
Excuse me?" I said, palms down on the Formica tabletopCoffee? I thought we came here for pie." "I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here." I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked." -- Janet Evanovich
Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet." -- Jeanette Winterson
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Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar." -- Ne Yo
What can I give you, Aislinn? Shall I weave flowers into your hair?"He opened his hand, letting go of her hair. An iris blossom sat in the palm of his handShall I bring you necklaces of gold? Delicacies mortals can only dream of? I'll do all those things anyway. Don't waste your wish." -- Melissa Marr
He began to see the situation from another angle. An assignment had been given him. Someone's life, a small set of lives had been placed in the palm of his hand. Maybe he would never have any more purpose than this: to accept the assignment gracefully, lovingly, and do the best he could with it." -- Anne Tyler
I coax my palm into his lapel in search of my wish, returning his feverish kisses."Checkmate, you son of a bug," I say against his mouth two seconds before my fingers find an empty pocket."Sleight of hand, blossom," he says right back 'Tis in fact in my pants pocket, if you'd like to search there." -- A.G. Howard
And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you'd do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards you; place your crossed wrists over your heart (the middle of your chest, anyway); then move your hands outwards a short distance, and open them towards the object of your love. It's just as eloquent as speech." -- Julian Barnes
I was not weak; I did not cry. But it hurt me, more in a kind of refreshing, thrilling way, than a kind of pain that would cripple me and send me away crying. My fingernails dug into the palms of my hands, and my teeth bit into my lips, my knees were locked, but I could not faint." -- Alysha Speer
Nightly boiling and then cooling a broth of freshly pounded fudano leaves in which she soaked her feat -and the pale palms of her hands- to an inky blackness. When Kunta asked his mother she told him to run along. So he asked his father, who told him, "The more blackness a woman has the more beautiful she is." -- Alex Haley
John stooped to give Kyle a kiss on the cheek. Kyle held her hand out to Cole, and for a brief moment their hands didn't touch. The tiny sliver of air between their palms seemed to contain the energy of an entire universe. But when his hand eclipsed hers, instead of an explosion, there was only calm. Only peace." -- Debra Anastasia
This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four." -- Gloria Naylor
Do you fear the force of the wind,The slash of the rain?Go face them and fight them,Be savage again.Go hungry and cold like the wolf,Go wade like the crane:The palms of your hands will thicken,The skin of your cheek will tan,You'll grow ragged and weary and swarthy,But you'll walk like a man!" -- Hamlin Garland
She truly believed that she carried her own fate in the palm of her hand, as if destiny was nothing more than a green marble or a robin's egg, a trinket any silly girl could scoop up and keep. She believed that all you wanted, you would eventually receive, and that fate was a force which worked with you, not against you." -- Alice Hoffman
Butch nodded, finding as comfortable a bite as he could on the leather. He braced himself as V lifted an arm.Except when his roommate's palm landed on his bare chest all he felt was a warm weight. Butch frowned. This was it? This was fucking it? Scaring the shit out of Marissa for no good-He looked down, pissed off.Oh, wrong hand." -- J.R. Ward
In the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them." -- Stephen Chbosky
My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)" -- Rachel Held Evans
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand. -- William Blake
He is still in control. He still has you in the palm of His hand. -- Joel Osteen
How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand? -- Bob Dylan
The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand. -- Laini Taylor
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. -- Laurence Leamer
We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand. -- Helen Caldicott
Let go yesterday and hold out for tomorrow, the future is in the palm of your hand. -- L.L. Caulton
What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand." -- William James
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist. -- Kenneth Tynan
I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body. -- Walt Whitman
I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand -- Alice Sebold
You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it. -- Mac Miller
May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home. -- Robert Jordan
It is at the times when I feel that I have nothing that the gem lies in the palm of my hand. -- Holly A. Smith
Mister hit Josephine with the palm of his hand across her left cheek and it was then she knew she would run. -- Tara Conklin
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child -- Gregory David Roberts
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. -- Charles Dickens
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words... -- Yasunari Kawabata
A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand. -- Beryl Markham
I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Richard, remembering, "who am I? -- Neil Gaiman
Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I feel like theres so many people out there who have the kids in the palm of their hand, listening but there are so few people saying something -- Gerard Way
Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard. -- Robin Sharma
He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair. -- Arundhati Roy

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