Fists – Quotes

Providing for one’s family

Providing for one’s family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Eva Figes

Providing for one’s family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ‘doing the best’ for his children? Eva Figes

We are born into

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you. Ethel Percy Andrus

I keep remembering from

I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, ‘I want to work, I shall work’–and then I would come back home and … Read more

And the best films

And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process – the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end. Ethan Hawke

My son did not

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty. Erma Bombeck

I always held my

I always held my flower in a clenched fist. Eric Hoffer

Whatever happened to chivalry?

Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80’s movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he … Read more

I’m on my feet,

I’m on my feet, pacing around the room, punching a fist into my palm, which I stop doing when I realise how drama queen it feels. Eoin Colfer

Seek justice from tyrannical

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist. Emiliano Zapata