Fingers Quotes

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

"And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that."

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?

It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

Hmm…” Jason snapped his fingers. “I can call a friend for a ride.” Percy raised his eyebrows. “Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first.

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.

I lick my fingers because I don't like when my hands get slick. Licking my fingers helps me keep a good grip on the ball.

Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.

October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.

Hollywood's a business, and until someone puts their finger on you and decides you're the guy who's going to carry that movie, it's not going to happen.

You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.

I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.

Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.

You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?

A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.

Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? Boney fingers.

Only a dog would lick a finger pointed in anger.

I was born in the late '50s, was a child of the '60s, then the '70s, then the '80s, then the '90s, and I have mental fingers in all those pies.

It's 2006, why are they still using the index finger?

The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

Im not the type of person to point fingers at anybody, and I dont want anybody saying anything to me. There are situations where balls are bounced to your feet you dont say anything.

A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights.

A team is a fist-not five fingers.

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe. You are.’ His holding fingers are holding hers. ‘Me? Me?

Because my hands are rough and wrinkley, they are my least favourite feature. An ex-boyfriend used to call them 'Freddy Kreuger' fingers.

I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.

It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business.

Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"!

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

Yes, you are,” Chubs agreed. “But you’re our idiot, so be more careful next time.” “Cosigned,” Liam said, hooking his fingers over mine on top of the armrest.

And I have seen long fingers that would stare With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl Deftly across the counterpane and fall Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.

What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.