Fingers Quotes
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I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.
William Chillingworth -
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
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Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.
Morton Hunt -
He raked his fingers through his hair. "She doesn't need me." Ralston smirked. "You are laboring under that mistaken impression that it is their job to need us. In my experience it is almost always the other way around.
Sarah MacLean -
See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.
Etta James -
I can't do the movies like I do painting because I am really more of a sort of dilettante or something. I mean I know guys that make movies that I can see it is absolutely their medium and they can just go from one movie right into the next because it is just - they have got it so much on the tips of their fingers. But for me it is a special effort.
Red Grooms -
I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And while I was working toward it, it gave me something to think about other than that thing I couldn't put my finger on. But it always came back.
Sara Gruen -
I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.
Erich Maria Remarque
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I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
Ernest Jennings Ford -
Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?
Karen Essex -
I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.
Michael Musto -
He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings. So I am not flying alone now after all.
Elizabeth Wein -
You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.
Heinz Guderian -
There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.
Juan Rulfo
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Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.
Eddie Adams -
Flow into your dancing, circulate the steps into your body, as you would run your fingers through the hair of the one you Love.
Nelly Mazloum -
Fate gives you the finger and you accept.
William Shatner -
When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door.
Clarence Benjamin Jones -
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.
Erin Morgenstern -
You always felt not happy about things, but you just couldn't put your finger on what was going.
Warren Mundine
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Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.
Wences Casares -
Guns require a finger to pull the trigger.
Rick Perry -
God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
Ray Bradbury