Fingers Quotes

• When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.

  

  George Eliot
  • Hands
  • Fingers
  • Cutoff

• We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Fire

• If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Wonder
  • Arms
  • Painter

• We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

  

  Ethel Percy Andrus
  • World
  • Born
  • Lessons

• You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.

  

  Midge Ure Ultravox
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Play

• Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Logical
  • Globes

• closed my eyes and listened. It was like music I'd heard all my life, even more than "This Lullaby." All those keystrokes, all those letters, so many words. I brushed my fingers over the beads and watched as her image rippled, like it was on water, breaking apart gently and shimmering before becoming whole again.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Water
  • Eye
  • Heard

• our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch

  

  Judy Blume
  • Fingers
  • Print
  • Fades

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

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Fingers
  • Look Up
  • All The Time

• One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

  

  Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • Credit
  • Fingers
  • Good Sense

• You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.

  

  Heinz Guderian
  • Hands
  • Fingers
  • Spread

• The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Writing
  • Expression
  • Movement

• I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

  

  Michael Musto
  • Want
  • Stuck
  • Driven

• A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

  

  Vivian Stanshall
  • Girl
  • Shadow
  • Glasses

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

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Think
  • Speed
  • Fingers

• Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Men
  • Joy

• I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Hand

• Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Fire
  • Secret
  • Princes

• Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Looks
  • Poor

• Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Ends
  • Despair
  • Becoming

• I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Play
  • Fingers
  • Stiff

• There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.

  

  Sonya Hartnett
  • Fire
  • Fingers

• Don’t brush anything under the rug. Don’t point fingers or do the blame game. A team is a family, and we’re in this together.

  

  Erik Spoelstra
  • Family
  • Games
  • Brushes

• It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Hands
  • Missing
  • Arms

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