Fingers Quotes

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

One thing nobody knows about me is that three of my fingers are edible, but I cant tell you which fingers.

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

It is very easy to point fingers at others sitting at home, but very difficult to play the game.

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.

You should not be misled about the so-called single opposition candidate. There are so many of them now that you will lack the fingers to count them.

As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.

That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your heart. You get the tone, and the fingers will follow.

I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.

Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.

I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.

Practice with your fingers and you need all day. Practice with your mind and you will do as much in 1 1/2 hours.

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.

I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.

How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair.

I’ve actually been in a lot of movies that involve sucking on fingers.

A ring is a halo on your finger.

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head - that is the ultimate source of frustration.

I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies.

A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

Grace reached over and began stroking her fingers through my hair. I closed my eyes and let her drive me crazy.