#handed

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#dead #fantasy #fiction #hard #i

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#simple #simple-life #simple-living #simplicity #life

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it. ↗

— Evelyn Ashford

#earn #everything #handed #i #i do

The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again. ↗

— Ruth Buzzi

#comedy #dean #dean martin #doing #given

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beliefs #books #considerations #different #down

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them. ↗

— Eric Church

#handed #just #many #people #them

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?" ↗

— Grace Hopper

#i #immigration #looked #me #officer

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect. ↗

— Alison Lohman

#ever #going #handed #necessarily #perfect

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it. ↗

— Ben Okri

#came #change #collapsed #denser #got

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. ↗

— John Huston

#crime #endeavor #form #human #left-handed