Hand Clapping Sayings

#1. If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?

Douglas Coupland

#2. Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.

Robert O. Becker

#3. When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping.

Dan Fogelberg

#4. I love the sound of one hand clapping.

Sienna McQuillen

#5. Wizards don't like philosophy very much. As far as they are concerned, one hand clapping makes a noise like cl.

Terry Pratchett

#6. What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave so make it short.
Mitch Hertzog's voice mail message.

Meg Cabot

#7. A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once and ultimately achieves the kind of spirit-healing few novels do

Niall Williams

#8. Feels pain when the love of one hand clapping
but more painful when the person you love turns out never happy living with you.

M.Rivai

#9. A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

Matthew Diamond

#10. Nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

Lynda Obst

#11. What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked.
Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes."
Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

J.K. Rowling

#12. Young people are always demanding respect instead of trying to earn it. In my day, respect was something to strive for. Something to be given, not taken.

Helen Simonson

#13. Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

Jonathan Haidt

#14. Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

Brad Pitt

#15. You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

Hakuin Ekaku

#16. I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clapping?

Ellen DeGeneres

#17. There's lotion for your face, lotion for your hands, lotion for your feet, lotion for your body. Why? What would happen if you put hand lotion on your feet? Would your feet get confused and start clapping?

Ellen DeGeneres

#18. I love the world that is my room. It's nicer in here than out there, because in here I'm whatever I want to be ... I am fearless. I am free. I am safe.

Jennifer Niven

#19. A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.

Anthony Liccione

#20. Oh, well that can't have been me," Harry smiled grimly, clapping a hand on Malone's shoulder as he moved past the big man. "You're still alive. . ." 7:03

Stephen England

#21. Me, sir! What has it to do with me? You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel? Good morning, Mr. Worthing!

Oscar Wilde

#22. Deprecation always waits to be disputed, and, if the disputation does not come, becomes petulance.

Eleanor Catton

#23. Men are imposible, but after you've had one around nothing ever has quite the flavor without one. It's terrible, really. When they're there you want to shoot them and when they're not you want to shoot yourself.

Babs Deal

#24. I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.

Christoph Waltz

#25. Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.

Conrad Sewell

#26. What is the sound of one hand?

Hakuin Ekaku

#27. Love seeks out that desperate, lonely, frightened place inside each of us and coaxes it out into the daylight, so that it can eviscerate it in the burning heat of the sun.

Cassondra Windwalker

#28. When you're unsure, jump with your eyes closed and legs wide open

Yasmin Ahmad

#29. You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

Ian McEwan

#30. When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

Robert McNamara

#32. I tricked myself into doing this movie.

Casey Affleck

#33. Eight people show up. The emcee is warm, friendly, and about as funny as Shoah. I take the stage to the sound of, my hand to God, one person clapping once and only once, and then I start into my act.

Patton Oswalt

#34. Girl, you have a knack for drawing trouble, Billy says, clapping an affectionate hand on my shoulder.

Cynthia Hand

#35. Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

Georges Jacques Danton