Handful Quotes - Page 9

• Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Loneliness, Eye, Night

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• Quien mete la mano en un rosal puede coger un puñado de flores; pero por muchas que coja, es sólo una pequeña porción del conjunto. Sin embargo, un puñado basta para experimentar la naturaleza de las flores. Sólo si nos negamos a meter la mano en el rosal, porque no podemos coger todas las flores a la vez, o si extendemos nuestro puñado de rosas como si fuera todo el rosal, sólo entonces florece aparte de nosotros, desconocido para nosotros, y nos quedamos solos.

  Lou Andreas-Salomé

  Flower, Rose, Doe

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• [C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half the globe; one Jesus, three quarters of the world. We all have that capacity. (140)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Jesus, Strong, Yoga

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• And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Dust

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

  Patricia McCormick

  Fog, Trying, Remember

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• A hundred people is rather a large handful for the four of us to take on," Malcolm pointed out. "Do you have any ideas about how we're going to handle that task?" "Simple," Halt told him. "We'll surround them.

  John Flanagan

  Simple, Ideas, Gente

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• Mientras me alisaba el último puñado en la parte superior del muslo, me di cuenta de que tenía compañía. Lewus estaba de pie mirándome, con los ojos entrecerrados pero sin el menor sueño. Se había puesto sus vaqueros azules, pero nada más... muy sexy. No pude evitar contemplar la escena.

  Rachel Caine

  Sexy, Eye, Blue

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• Mi madre decía que yo era difícil. Ahora soy servicial.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mom, Helpful, Said

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• Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.

  Nick Hornby

  Men, Worry, Looks

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• Un hombre que utiliza muchas palabras para expresar lo que quiere decir es como un mal tirador que, en lugar de apuntar con una sola piedra a un objeto, coge un puñado y lo lanza con la esperanza de acertar.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Political

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• Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Lying, Heart, Land

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• The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

  Michael Chabon

  Fire, Dust, Broken

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• Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

  William Golding

  Fuerte, Niños, Escuela

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• Nunca debes dudar en cambiar tu vaca por un puñado de judías mágicas.

  Tom Robbins

  Inspiration, Anxiety, Magic

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• Dame un ejército de graduados de West Point y ganaré una batalla... Dame un puñado de Aggies de Texas y ganaré una guerra.

  George S. Patton

  War, Army, Winning

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• I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a handful of signposts that middle school existed at all.

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Oregon, Facts

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.51, Portobello Books

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• Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Song, Stars, Memories

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• His suspicion that he was not going in the right direction tortmented him more and more. At last he had the conviction that he would never go anywhere but in the wrong direction, to the very end of the handful of days that was left to him, unhappy moonstruck pilgrim, whose April was to be cut off short.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Cutting, Unhappy, Lasts

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• Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

  Henry Miller

  Peace, May, Abiding

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.404, New Directions Publishing

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• Recoge de polvo de estrellas, polvo de tierra, polvo de nubes, polvo de tormenta, y astillas de granizo, un puñado de polvo de sueños, que no se venda.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Stars, Clouds

  Langston Hughes (2011). “The Dream Keeper and Other Poems”, p.76, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Writing, Hair, Unity

  FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Jul 12, 2011

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• That Loor's a handful, she is." - Spader (Black Water)

  D. J. MacHale

  Water, Black

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• The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

  Daniel Quinn

  Race, World, Prison

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• Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny.

  Frank Beddor

  Children, Population, Lucky

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• 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

  Two, Twenties, Splits

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