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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
— D.H. Lawrence
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.
— Steve Wozniak
One has to be able at every moment to place one's hand on the earth like the first human being.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
O, let me kiss that hand!
KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. — William Shakespeare
KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. — William Shakespeare
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
— Johnny Cash
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
— Bertrand Russell
Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.
— Epictetus
If you don't know what it feels like to have someone you love put a hand below your bottom rib for the first time, what chance is there for love?
— Nicole Krauss
For a tiny instant Faith wondered whether it would benefit the doctor's investigation if he experienced a cliff fall first-hand.
— Frances Hardinge
Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.
— Gloria Estefan
Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?
— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Each believed that God was on his side, for no one raises a hand without convincing himself first that he is right.
— Andrew Krivak
The first time I met Elizabeth Edwards, she greeted me at the door of her home juggling a yogurt in one hand and a Diet Coke in the other.
— Jennifer Palmieri
Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one.
— Layne Beachley
I threw my hand over my mouth and blurted out the first best excuse I could come up with, Morning breath!
— Melissa Aragon
He covered my hand with his. No matter what happens, we're friends first. I hope you know how much having you in my life means to me.
— Cindi Madsen
We're lucky." He slipped his hand around her waist and splayed it in the small of her back. "Most couples have only one first kiss. We'll have two.
— Christina Dodd
For the first time in his life, he wanted his wand back in his hand, not to defend himself, but to attack ... to kill.
— J.K. Rowling
Then I'm glad I'm your first." She tightened her grip on his hand.
"You're my last, Gabriel. My only. — Sylvain Reynard
"You're my last, Gabriel. My only. — Sylvain Reynard
Sim sighed. like Ross always said: Wish in one hand,shit in the other,and see which hand fills up first.
— Keith Gray
When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.
— Christina Aguilera
The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand ... And the power in hand is the vote.
— Helen Gahagan Douglas
Oh the wonders of being married. Put a gun in one hand and a woman in the other, I'm never sure who's going to kill me first.
— Michael W. Grimard
I'd blow someone for a valium," I said in Jacob's ear.
"Maybe he's got one ... but try offering a hand-job first so you retain some leverage. — Jordan Castillo Price
"Maybe he's got one ... but try offering a hand-job first so you retain some leverage. — Jordan Castillo Price
Before you can give anyone a hand up, first you must get yourself up there to do so ...
— Stephen Richards
Being called baby: like safaris and bowling leagues, a phenomenon she never thought she'd experience first hand.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
You dumb-ass ape, get your hand off me. What - are you the first in your family to be born without a tail?
— Cherise Sinclair
The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
— Evelyn Underhill
I've watched you for a very long time now. And in this time, I've come to discover just as I first suspected. We are perfect for one another.
— Paloma Beck
There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.
— Reginald Rose
HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
There is nobody as brave as a baby taking his/her first non-stop 5 steps alone from Mummy's hand to daddy's hand ... trust me on that
— Sameh Elsayed
Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Her eyes were dark and shining, and his arms were sure of her.
The first time he touched her hand, he'd known. — Rainbow Rowell
The first time he touched her hand, he'd known. — Rainbow Rowell
If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.
— Gerard Way
Love is a sweet dream until the hand of reality wakes you up
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.
— Stephenie Meyer
An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.
— Henry Ford
Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
— Thucydides
I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.
— Pierce Brosnan
Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
— Bette Greene
First rule of Angel Club, you do not talk about Angel Club.
— Cynthia Hand
Ellis squatted down next to her and put his hand gently on her shoulder. "Clairey ... " Her name sounded strange on his lips for the first time.
— Tracy Winegar
So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.
— Kathryn Minshew
There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it easier for him to hand it over
— Ivena When Heaven Weeps Ted Dekker
There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
— Neil Gaiman
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
— C.S. Lewis
The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas.
— George W. Bush
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
— Edmund Burke
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
— Kajol
Ivy held no claim over me," he said softly. "You, on the other hand, you claimed me from the moment I first saw you.
— Megg Jensen
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.
— Paul Hoffman
The guy had guts - I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them.
— Rob Thurman
The comfort of our peer-connections is reflected in our most honest and direct hand-holding. When we trip, they are the first ones to pull us back up.
— Sara Shandler
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
— Joey Skaggs
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
— Samuel Butler
War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
— Edward Abbey
The chamber grew suddenly silent, the only other person with first-hand knowledge of the matter staring pensively at the floor.
— Marcha A. Fox
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
— Sargent Shriver
He tossed the deck to David. 'You get first deal.'
'I've got one hand.'
'Right, then. Deal those cards, Max, and let's have ourselves a game. — Henry H. Neff
'I've got one hand.'
'Right, then. Deal those cards, Max, and let's have ourselves a game. — Henry H. Neff
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm a child of the early nineties. Eddie Vedder and my right hand gave me my first orgasm.
— Tiffany Reisz
I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.
— Giuseppe Zangara
I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
— Vin Diesel
In one hand I have a restraining order, and in the other I have a Taser. Which would you like to meet first?
— John Scalzi
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
— Madame De Stael
The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.
— Rainbow Rowell
like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.
— Cormac McCarthy
First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.
— Ryan Sean O'Reilly
She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.
— P.G. Wodehouse
My gun trainer on the first 'G.I. Joe' gave me about a week of commando training, so I got to shoot every single machine gun and hand gun there was.
— Ray Park
Fuck it,' I hear him mutter, and the next thing I know he's taking hold of my hand.
— Samantha Towle
Ladies first." He places a hand on the ladder and gives it a pat.
As I step in front of him, my shoulder brushes against his chest. — Shannon Duffy
As I step in front of him, my shoulder brushes against his chest. — Shannon Duffy
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
— Erwin Knoll
I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.
— John Scott
Death," she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place.
— Vicki Pettersson
You have a wound too, Papa." Hanna took Brigan's left hand, which was wrapped in a bandage, and inspected it. "Did you throw the first punch?
— Kristin Cashore
I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.
— Ann Hood
Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to reach out for something new, you must first let go of what's in your hand.
— Sonia Choquette
The day after tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life - that way you've always got a couple of days in hand.
— Bill Bailey
When I first met him [David Beckham] I didn't know whether to shake his hand or lick his face.
— Robbie Williams
The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]
— Elias Canetti
You only get married the first time once. There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence
— Carrie Vaughn
Because I want to know if I'm allowed to kiss your tears away. Because I want to be able to hold your hand. Because I like you.
— J.B. McGee