Hand Speech

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. - Dale Carnegie

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - English Proverb

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. - Richard Bach

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands. - Jayne Mansfield

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding. - John Glover

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands. - Thomas Fuller

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

Hiking and happiness go hand in hand (or foot in boot). - Diane Spicer

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy. - Dan Gable

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

If a deaf person swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap? - George Carlin

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon. - Brian P. Cleary

I felt sorry for myself because I had no hands until I met a man who had no chips. - Kent Andersson

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

Caesar dreamed that he was flying above the clouds, and now that he was clasping the hand of Jupiter. - Suetonius

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand - that and such hope as I bring. - JRR Tolkien

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand and beg people to throw me all of their wasted hours. - Bernard Berenson

There's an upside to grandparenthood. You play, you give, you love, then you hand them back and go to an early movie. - Billy Crystal

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame. - Sandra L. Douglas

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell