Fingers Quotes

The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.

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

Sonya Hartnett
- Fire
- Fingers

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
- Reading
- Escape
- Fingers
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

William H. Gass
In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
- Guitar
- Used
- Reputation
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
I can bend my wrist down to my forearm. I can wrench my fingers backward until they rest on my hand. A hitchhiker's thumb might arc into a 90-degree angle; mine will go to 135.

Monica Hesse
- Mine
- Backward
- Wrench
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

Henry Ward Beecher
- World
- Men
- Joy