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«The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.»

Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir (Actor, Film Director, Producer) | About: Actors and acting | Keywords: actor, palm, palmed

«To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.»

Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: eternity, flower, grain, hand, heaven, hold, hour, Infinities, infinity, palmed, palms, sand, sanded, sanding, wild, Wilder, wilds, wild flower

«We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.»

Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Writer) | Keywords: astrology, balderdash, fanatic, harmless, palmed, palms, safer, superstition

«If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.»

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh (Activist, Monk, Writer) | About: Family, Generations, Parents | Keywords: ancestors, continuation, deeply, generations, palm, palmed

«To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.»

Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: eternity, flower, grain, Infinities, infinity, palm, palmed, sand, sanded, sanding, wild, wild flower

«At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.»

Author: Albert Camus (Essayist, Novelist, Playwright) | Keywords: above, above all, accept, defects, exact, exacted, exacting, exacts, failures, foretell, foretells, foretold, Know how, number, palm, palmed, qualities

«Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant, and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.»

Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: baked, bakes, baking, cake, currant, palmed, unwary

«You yourself - Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm»

Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: condemn, itched, itches, itching, palm, palmed

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