Fingers Quotes

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

There is a point when tears don't work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.

No touching... Cashmere is highly sensitive to the oil in poor people's fingers.

I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

Happiness is like water. We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers

Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.

I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.

You always felt not happy about things, but you just couldn't put your finger on what was going.

I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

Guys like me come along very seldom in the wrestling business. You can count 'em on a couple of fingers.

The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.

The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst to be away. In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.

I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

I've got my fingers in many pies and I'm very excited about creating stuff and watching it blossom and bloom and harvest it and get on with the next thing.

You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.

I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.