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

- Alison Lohman

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

- Douglas Coupland

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

- Eric Church

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.

- Ethel Merman

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

- Evelyn Ashford

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

- Eve Hewson

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

- Grace Hopper

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

- Jacques Derrida

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.

- Terrence Howard