Fingers Quotes
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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.
Ray Bradbury -
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.
Anne Bronte
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You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
Tommy Bolin -
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.
Ben Aaronovitch -
I can't keep my fingers out of any pies.
David Bowie -
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
Stephen Vizinczey -
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert Spencer -
People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.
Morgan Spurlock
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With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
Thomas Hood -
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.
Elizabeth Goudge -
To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.
Dennis Covington -
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
Audrey Hepburn -
For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is.
Catherine Yass -
The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst to be away. In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
He didn't panic, but if he let it play out another one or two more fingers, he would have got right to where he needed to be.
Jamie Moyer -
I played and recorded this song using my fingers instead of a pick. In the verses I'm basically playing a guitar chord and plucking the strings with my thumb, pointer and middle fingers.
Paul Thomas Good Charlotte -
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?
Barry Lyga -
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
Ray Bradbury -
Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.
Elizabeth Bear
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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.
Dan Barker -
Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
Tom Lehrer -
All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.
Michael Eric Dyson -
You could point fingers all you want. But in the end, we are thin there and it has affected us to some degree.
Bob Stoops