Sound Of One Hand Clapping Quotes

#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. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Edmund White

#10. I live my life like everyday is my last.

Manny Pacquiao

#11. It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.

Carolyn Turgeon

#12. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

Alice Hoffman

#13. Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.

Ronald Rolheiser

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

Hakuin Ekaku

#15. What is the sound of one hand?

Hakuin Ekaku

#16. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement.

Elbert Guillory

#17. 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