Fingers Quotes

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.

Some people think their fingers are toes or claws, but they're actually finger bones.

Fingers get habits - have memories of their own.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you're always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason - not even pointing fingers, it just is.

You know my father's favorite game? Come here and pull my finger.

You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.

Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.

I've never been a pizza eater. I don't like to hold it and fold it and always burn the roof of my mouth. I hate having greasy fingers.

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

She still felt his gaze on her like the brush of a finger across the back of her neck, making her shiver.

Not enough," he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won't be enough.

Will’s hand looked brown and sunburnt by contrast, their fingers dovetailed together like piano keys.

He kissed each finger, and with each one of them spoken a word. Five kisses, five words. His last.

Have a little faith in my magic fingers

People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.

There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger.

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

Write til your fingers bleed.

Why does the thin grey strand Floating up from the forgotten Cigarette between my fingers, Why does it trouble me?

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

I can't keep my fingers out of any pies.

Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.

Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

When I was four years old, I remember looking in the mirror and running my fingers over my stomach and thinking I was fat.

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.

Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.

Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?

Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound that had never been heard before.

The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.

You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

I’ve never had a writer’s block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you’re going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?

Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers. "Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?

The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.

The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.

You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.