Handing Quotes

#1. For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.

Andre Braugher

#2. I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.

Rory McIlroy

#3. Rock n' roll means so much more to people; it enriches the culture. Also, it inspires people; there's no half-feeling. When I first got into it, I was inspired by people who had come before me, and I found myself in the position of handing that on.

Mick Jones

#4. There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.

Tahj Mowry

#5. Sometimes Jane wished she were good at diplomatic speeches. She wished she'd mastered coquettish looks and innocent smiles. But she hadn't. She was singularly bad at those forms of persuasion. She was good at handing out money and opinions.

Courtney Milan

#6. But if love wasn't just yours first, it was like cutting up and handing out your birthday cake before you blew out the candles.

Deb Caletti

#7. When Matthew merely stared at him, Jackson reached into the weapon box and pulled out a sheathed machete, handing it to the boy.
Matthew laughed and dropped it.

Kresley Cole

#8. Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

Wendell Berry

#9. We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

Bruce Babbitt

#10. There was something absolutely terrifying in handing over your wounded heart for someone else to hold.

N.R. Walker

#11. When you get rid of the estate tax," he (Warren Buffet) said, "you're basically handing over command of the country's resources to people who didn't earn it. It's like choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the children of all the winners at the 2000 Games.

Barack Obama

#12. The idea was that the record itself ['The Bones Of What You Believe' ] is a kind of labour of love for us - all our energy and all our passion and all the stuff we believed in is in that record, so you're kind of handing that off to other people, if that makes sense.

Lauren Mayberry

#13. For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You've done the time but wonder if it's going to satisfy the judge.

Shandy L. Kurth

#14. Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

James Altucher

#15. I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.

John Green

#16. I'm an artist," she says. It always costs her an effort to make this statement. As if she is handing over a false identity card.

Glenn Haybittle

#17. On handing the book back to my friend, the woman inquired "Is he gay?" No, said my friend. The woman pondered for a moment. "Is he English?" she asked.

Terry Eagleton

#18. Give to you; and if I have chosen my own time and way for handing it over, you can hardly blame me, considering the trouble I had to find you. Your father could not remember his own name when he gave me the paper, and he never told me yours; so on the whole I think I ought

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. I wonder if the priest knows that while he's up here charging for forgiveness, Mary's back there handing it out for free.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#20. Bad weather's moving in," the old bird said, finally handing me a check.
Never seen so many tornadoes in my life.
We don't need no more of those," I agreed. "Last time one went through, the wind blew so hard I had to have my butt cheeks sewn back together.

Nick Wilgus

#21. There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#22. The brunette was conducting tests on the collected blood when the older woman came into her laboratory to get the child's photo. The old woman took the picture to a pale-skinned woman with red hair, who in turn fixed it with a morbidly curious look before handing it back.

R.G. Richards

#23. Our society encourages women to place a very high value on maternity as an essential part of female identity, both a high moral calling and the deepest source of satisfaction on earth. It's not easy to redefine motherhood as handing your baby over to a stranger.

Katha Pollitt

#24. It looks like President Bush will be handing over power to the Iraqis by June 30th. That's amazing and not only that, but it looks like he'll be handing over power to the Democrats by November 2nd.

David Letterman

#25. His fingers trace letters on my flesh. He's handing me back my own words. This is real

Autumn Doughton

#26. Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

Jeannette Walls

#27. There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

Thomas Sowell

#28. Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out ice-skates and went on heaving sandbags.

Stephen King

#29. I had fun last night," I told Patch, flicking off my chin strap and handing over my helmet. "I'm officially in love with your sheets."
"That the only thing you're in love with?"
"Nope. Your mattress, too."
Some smile crept into Patch's eyes. "My bed's an open invitation.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#30. Jesus is handing out God's party invitations. They read: You're invited to my party in the new creation. Come as you are.

Tim Chester

#31. There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#32. You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Preston Sturges

#33. Whether I'm shooting 10-under or 10-over I have to realize people have come a long way to see me play. I can't be back-handing putts.

John Daly

#34. Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

Stephen Covey

#35. Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.

John Shelton Reed

#36. I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.

Jane Levy

#37. The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

Harold Prince

#38. They were smart enough to know that handing out superpowers like sweets to the general public was never going to be a good idea.
Not that that stopped it from happening anyway.

Violet Cross

#39. He tells me to pick the music. I'm not sure if he knows that handing me his iPod is like handing me the window to his soul.

Becky Albertalli

#40. Give him to me," said Anne. "Not everybody wants to French kiss the dog, Mal." The blond, heavily tattooed man grinned, handing the fur baby over. "But he's a great kisser. I taught him myself.

Kylie Scott

#41. The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

George Orwell

#42. Life would have been easier if he'd never taught her to believe in heroes by handing her those cookies that day, but it wouldn't have been nearly as magnificent either.

Kele Moon

#43. I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

Michael Connelly

#44. All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.

Anthony De Mello

#45. The huge house looked as if some architectural master had put it together before handing it over to the spoilt son of some rich benefactor who had decided to have his way with it.

Will Hawthorne

#46. How'd you get in there?" "She thinks I'm the shit," Jake told him, grinning back. Coert kept handing him crap. "So you've brainwashed her.

Kristen Ashley

#47. Have you noticed that more people seem to be dying than are being born? Bean asked, handing the section to Finney, who took it and nodded solemnly.
"That means there's more for those of us still here." He handed the section back.
"I don't want more," said Bean.
"You will.

Louise Penny

#48. Kyle must have seen my panic, because when I looked up at him again, his jacket and shirt were off and he was handing me his shirt. The sight of him with no shirt on hit me. Holy hell, what was he doing?

Christie Cote

#49. What is Love? perhaps we may find that love is the ability of someone to give us back to us. Maybe love is someone seeing and remembering, handing us back to ourselves just a trifle better than we had dared to hope or dream...

Ray Bradbury

#50. Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?

Amity Gaige

#51. Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

Dick Cavett

#52. The judge sentenced us to life
real, awake life
out of the jails we had been roaming in
life in prism
then started handing out fines
for parking too long.

B.J. Ward

#53. Oh my lovely princess,"Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."
-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Brandon Sanderson

#54. Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

M. Night Shyamalan

#55. When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

Aaron Sorkin

#56. Well thank you, me old gobbler,' said Mr. Gum handing over some money that Billy William would later discover to be made out of lies and broken promises.

Andy Stanton

#57. You get involved with a studio, and optional pictures and sequel options and that sort of thing are becoming part and parcel with the roles they're handing out.

Jai Courtney

#58. For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!

Margaret Cho

#59. Sure, they only had ten days to stop the giants from waking Gaia. Sure, he could die before dinnertime. But he loved being told that something was impossible. It was like someone handing him a lemon meringue pie and telling him not to throw it. He just couldn't resist the challenge.

Rick Riordan

#60. I've never met anyone like her, as strong-willed as me and yet, just handing me everything, letting me take her apart one touch at a time.

Christina Lauren

#61. She reached around me, grabbing my Gemini from the back pocket of my jeans. She touched its share button to hers. 'There,' she said, handing the phone back to me. 'You have my number. We should be friends now.

Lauren Miller

#62. It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.

Nia Vardalos

#63. Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.

Mark Hart

#64. If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.

Dave Van Ronk

#65. I don't know, he said, handing her the ticket. He'd been standing there all the while on the sidewalk, waiting for her. Waiting, until they were in the darkness of the theatre, to take her hand.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#66. Here, honey," he said quietly, handing her the panties he'd untangled from her dress. "I'll be good, but it might not be a bad idea to put these back on.

Sibylla Matilde

#67. I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers ...

Alice Walker

#68. Miracles are just formal requests, Shara thinks wildly. It's like having a form preprinted and filled out and handing it in to get exactly what you want! But you don't always have to do it that way! You can make it up as you go along, so long as you do it right!

Robert Jackson Bennett

#69. At the end of the day, you're handing your performance over. If a director says after a take, 'You know what, try it just really angry. Just get furious' ... you're like, 'Well, I don't know if I want to give you that because I don't know if I trust what you're going to do with it.'

Chris Evans

#70. That girl is just plain crazy," Chey said as she looped her arm through Arkadia's. 'I swear when they were handing out social skills she was still in the line for shoes.

Dzintra Sullivan

#71. I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

Raina Telgemeier

#72. I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.

Joe Jamail

#73. Sharing his memories felt like handing over a sharp knife. A knife that others might handle carelessly. A knife that could be used to hurt him.

Matthew J. Kirby

#74. Colonel Talbot? he is a very disagreeable person, to be sure. He looks as if he thought no Scottish woman worth the trouble of handing her a cup of tea.

Walter Scott

#75. "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

Arthur Conan Doyle

#76. If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue!

Mark Gorman

#77. Life don't come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain't nobody handing it to us.

Libba Bray

#78. I receive really powerful personal letters. I think that always takes the cake. It blows me away ... some of the comments. Someone will come and I sense their whole tone and energy when they're handing me this letter.

Eliza Dushku

#79. We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, "Why didn't you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind."

Christopher Hitchens

#80. I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

Claire McCaskill

#81. I don't think I can keep looking at this stuff, Buster," she informed him, handing the camera to her brother. "It makes me want to drink either more alcohol or none, and I can't imagine either possibility.

Kevin Wilson

#82. We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see what's on the horizon over the next few decades with the effects it will have on ecosystems, sea level and species extinction

James Hansen

#83. Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

Judy Blume

#84. Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.

P. J. O'Rourke

#85. Jesus wasn't so much handing out information as reshaping our imaginations.

Eugene H. Peterson

#86. But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

Robert A. Heinlein

#87. I know it isn't nice to vex people on purpose - it's like handing them a toad - but this is much too good to miss and I may never have another chance at it.

Lloyd Alexander

#88. 28. If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?

Epictetus

#89. As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Honore De Balzac

#90. If we don't find out where we are, we won't ever escape," she said, handing him the sheet of paper. "Wait here. I'll be right back." She jogged off, skirt swishing.

Brandon Sanderson

#91. You will treasure each moment
when you realize
who is handing it to you.

Hemat Malak

#92. Daffy bent down suddenly, and picked a small startled white flower. "Anemone," he said, handing it over; he made her repeat the word until she had it right. "Find me a silk to match that.

Emma Donoghue

#93. When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

Andy Serkis

#94. Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.

Frederick Lenz

#95. You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from the actor and hearing their voice and how they play things.

Summer Glau

#96. We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack. So I took all the stuff back to the bus. I put the sack in my lap and opened it, and a live iguana jumped out of the sack and onto my shirt. I screamed like a little girl!

Blake Shelton

#97. But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Polly Toynbee

#98. When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

Mireille Enos

#99. The Eternal Smiler strode forth, handing her one, as well. I considered the psychology behind her smile and formed the conclusion that, despite its obvious coating of pleasantry, it was an understandable psychological decision.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#100. Simon sipped at his coffee. "Everything in life is a hallucination," he said simply. "Everything in death, too," he added. "The universe is just putting us on. Handing us a line.

Robert Shea