Quotes About Handfuls

#1. Poncho was in a red mood slanging with rage and needed to cook himself out of it , while shoving handfuls of salted peanuts down his gullet and slurping ice cold Fanta

Saira Viola

#2. Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Katherine Anne Porter

#3. He rose in his turn, and seizing handfuls of confetti and sweetmeats, with which the carriage was filled, cast them with all the force and skill he was master of.

Alexandre Dumas

#4. While some people were shooting themselves and hanging themselves and swallowing handfuls of pills and jumping from high places, Dad pushed back against the darkness.

Rick Yancey

#5. The freezing rain sifts down, handfuls of shining rice thrown by some unseen celebrant. Wherever it hits, it crystallizes into a granulated coating of ice.

Margaret Atwood

#6. In one corner the piano tuner scattered arpeggios live handfuls of beads.

Boris Pasternak

#7. God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world.

F.B. Meyer

#8. Handfuls of frosty water can make almost anyone smile, but it cannot make them forget.

Markus Zusak

#9. Great handfuls of her life were being stolen from her and she would never be able to retrieve them.

Joyce Carol Oates

#10. The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

Philip Sidney

#11. Then they would roll these handfuls of cloud in their fingers until they turned into what looked like large white marbles. Then they would toss the marbles to one side and quickly grab more bits of cloud and start over again.

Roald Dahl

#12. I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

William H Gass

#13. You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.

Allan Kardec

#14. Mentally Connie gathered her strands of thinking into thick handfuls, trying to braid them into a coherent whole.

Katherine Howe

#15. handfuls of sand and grab a couple more fronds

Abi Ketner

#16. She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds.

Scott Westerfeld

#17. Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour
appearing in small Southern towns
in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Bill Hicks

#18. Instead of loaves of bread, many times God gives out handfuls of purpose.

T.D. Jakes

#19. I shall take two huge handfuls of his rustling hair as he lies half dreaming, half waking, and wind them into ropes, very softly, so he will not wake up, and, softly, with hands as gentle as rain, I shall strangle him with them.

Angela Carter

#20. The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#21. Death was temporary, lasting only long enough to provoke a laugh from kids in pajamas sitting cross-legged in front of the TV set, gorging themselves on handfuls of Froot Loops.

Agatha Christie

#22. The kids didn't call me Amy Schumer; they called me Amy Jewmer. One summer, I'll never forget this, all the kids took turns throwing handfuls of pennies at me. I know, I was like, 'Excuse me - this is awesome!

Amy Schumer

#23. Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others.

Jose Luis Peixoto

#24. And soon we were just rolling around on the ground, cursing and screeching and ripping out handfuls of hair.
Without super hearing, I wouldn't have heard Zeb whisper, "This is the coolest thing I have ever seen."
"Maybe they'll get muddy," Dick said. "Please, Lord, let them get muddy.

Molly Harper

#25. If anyone bothered to search through the laurel bordering the asphalt he'd surely find handfuls of teeth that were said to give the laurel its odd milky color, ivory with a pale pink edge, each blossom forming the shape of a bitter man's mouth.

Alice Hoffman

#26. We are the dead. Our only true life in in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.

George Orwell

#27. There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town still alight at midnight.

Alice Hoffman

#28. She threw words at me like handfuls of mud, and now that they've dried, I can brush them off.

Jodi Picoult

#29. And she cries even more, for the way the universe keeps throwing her together with the players in her son's tragedy, like handfuls of dust.

Clara Chow

#30. A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

Leo Tolstoy

#31. We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

James Alexander Thom

#32. She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

Gillian Flynn

#33. Look, it's nice. I like the fact that critics liked this movie, but most of the movies that I've made, you'll find a handful of people that love it and more than a few other handfuls of people hate it. If I was invested in that, I would've given up long ago.

David Fincher

#34. It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.

Dan Jenkins

#35. I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.

Gerry Adams

#36. Women are like handfuls of sand. They all rub up under your scales now and then, but the finest ones do put a polish on a man.

R. Lee Smith

#37. I could feel the shakes starting to come back, so I washed my face, rinsed my mouth out with handfuls of tap water, pasted on my best I-didn't-just-kill-a-zombie expression, and left with my coffee.

Jonathan Maberry

#38. For women, eating just two handfuls of nuts a week may extend their lives as much as by jogging four hours a week.

Michael Greger