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.
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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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You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.
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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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Battles I lose none I make crews run I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one
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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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When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door.
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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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If you shake my hand, better count your fingers.
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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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Fate gives you the finger and you accept.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.
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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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For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
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The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.
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Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two 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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The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.
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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.
