The 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. With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.

Marianne Williamson

#10. I like your orange dog." Nadia taps her finger near the fox I'm trying to draw.
I lean against my hand to hide my smile. "Thanks.

Emery Lord

#11. I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician, he is also a child place before natural phenomenon, which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

#12. Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.

Ruth Ozeki

#13. I think if I were to sit down in a bid for power, I would ask myself what I should control if I want to control the people. The answer would be sex. Money. And definitive knowledge of the afterlife. Then I'd make fantastically pleasant rules surrounding every one of them.

Dan Pearce

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

Hakuin Ekaku

#15. The absence of consensus does not mean an absence of truth

Hadley Arkes

#16. I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?

Macy Gray

#17. I've been to 57 states.

Barack Obama

#18. I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

Ken Stott

#19. Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you.

Michelle Ryan

#20. What is the sound of one hand?

Hakuin Ekaku

#21. Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.

Ada Yonath

#22. 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

#23. It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.

Haruki Murakami

#24. Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.

Jimmy Carter