Fingers Quotes
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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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.
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My fingertips are my favorite makeup brush! I especially like to apply my eye shadow with them, get it nice and smudgy. All my favorite makeup artists used their fingers to apply and their hand as a palette.
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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.
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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.
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When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door.
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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.
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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.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Berlusconi is being tried because he lives with women. If he was homosexual, no one would have lifted a finger against him.
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Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
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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.
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Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.
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Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.
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For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
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Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
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Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.
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Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.
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The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.
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Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
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And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I'll just take them with me.... Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?
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Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.
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I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
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In the old days he had clutched life with such violence that the juice of it ran out between his fingers and was lost, but now he would touch it delicately, thankful for the good and accepting the ills with patience.
