quotes about Fingers
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I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.
-- Abigail Williams -
You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.
-- Adam Mickiewicz -
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
-- Alan Moore -
My fingers always seem busier than my mind.
-- Alexander Calder -
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You should not be misled about the so-called single opposition candidate. There are so many of them now that you will lack the fingers to count them.
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
-- Alvin Dark -
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I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
-- Andrew Greeley -
The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed ...
-- Anna Katharine GreenSource : Anna Katharine Green (2016). “The Leavenworth Case”, p.104, Anna Katharine Green
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I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.
-- Antonio MachadoSource : Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.151, Wesleyan University Press
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This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn't meant to be yours, it won't be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it.
-- Aryn KyleSource : Aryn Kyle (2008). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster
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Touch it gently, put two fingers inside, make sure it's wet & rub up & down. Yep that's how you wash a cup!
-- Ashley Purdy -
Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
You can't put your finger on who I am. I can't put my finger on who I am.
-- Beyonce Knowles -
I wasn't somebody who raised his finger and then talked in a hushed voice. I always shouted.
-- Bill Kaulitz -
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We put boogers on our fingers, then shake your hand.
-- Biz Markie -
If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.
-- Bob Kane -
History is a story written by the finger of God.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.
-- Cassandra Clare -
People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.
-- Cassandra Peterson -
When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.
-- Cathy CassidySource : Cathy Cassidy (2011). “Chocolate Box Girls: Marshmallow Skye: Marshmallow Skye”, p.177, Penguin UK
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The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.
-- Charles Reznikoff -
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Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.
-- Charley Pride -
You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
-- Charlton Heston -
Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.
-- Chet Atkins -
I’ve actually been in a lot of movies that involve sucking on fingers.
-- Dane DeHaan -
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
-- Daniel Day-Lewis -
What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!
-- Dave Chappelle -
If you shake my hand, better count your fingers
-- Dave Mustaine -
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That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?
-- Denis Johnson -
The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.
-- Eleanor Hallowell AbbottSource : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.129, The Floating Press
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That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.
-- Elisabeth Rohm -
You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.
-- Eminem -
Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?
-- Eoin Colfer -
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
-- Ezra Pound -
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They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.
-- Fay Wray -
Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
-- Ford Frick -
Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.
-- Francis Quarles -
We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.
-- Freddie Mercury -
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I'd stood my ground against him. I wasn't going to jump when he said jump. I was more likely to give him the finger.
-- Gena Showalter -
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
-- Georg Buchner -
It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business.
-- George Carlin -
When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.
-- George Gershwin -
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For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.
-- Geri Halliwell -
I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.
-- Gillian Anderson -
When God’s putting His finger on the part of your life that’s not working, He’s pointing to your next miracle.
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You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.
-- Heinz GuderianSource : "Guts & Glory: World War II". Book by Ben Thompson, Hachette UK, 2016.
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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Turnbull -
Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? Boney fingers.
-- Hoyt Axton -
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I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.
-- Ike Turner -
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
-- Isaac Asimov -
I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
-- James Howell -
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Herewith I offer you the Omnipotent Finger of God in the anatomy of a louse: wherein you will find miracles heaped on miracles and will see the wisdom of God clearly manifested in a minute point.
-- Jan Swammerdam -
The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.
-- Jane Harman -
I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.
-- Jane Kaczmarek -
Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.
-- Janet Fitch -
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When hands are joined, no one can point fingers.
-- Jason Mraz -
Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.
-- Jim Rohn -
Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.
-- Jimmy Santiago Baca -
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One thing nobody knows about me is that three of my fingers are edible, but I cant tell you which fingers.
-- Joe Jonas -
She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.
-- John Green -
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One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.
-- Joseph Conrad -
our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch
-- Judy BlumeSource : "Fictional character: Tyler". "Remember Me", 2010.
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It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
-- Julia Child -
I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire
-- Kacey Musgraves -
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Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.
-- Ken AulettaSource : Ken Auletta (2011). “Hard Feelings: Reporting on the Pols, the Press, the People and the City”, p.413, Random House
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In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.
-- Khalil -
Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
-- Lenny Kravitz -
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She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.
-- Libba Bray -
The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.
-- Malcolm De Chazal -
The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.
-- Marian Hooper Adams -
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The peace sign is with two fingers not one.
-- Meg CabotSource : Meg Cabot (2009). “Sanctuary”, p.62, Simon and Schuster
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Hold your head high, and your middle finger higher.
-- Megan Fox -
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 DysonSource : "Michael Eric Dyson and 'Is Bill Cosby Right?'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. May 11, 2005.
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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.
-- Michael FaradaySource : Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”, p.471
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I hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.
-- Michael Ian Black -
Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers.
-- Michael Jackson -
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 -
To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
-- Moshe DayanSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.
-- Nancy HaleSource : Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume
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You must have stuck a finger up your arse at least once.
-- Noel Fielding -
The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.
-- Omar Khayyam -
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
-- Patricia Reilly Giff -
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Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.
-- Patrick Ness -
Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger...
-- Patrick Stump -
I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.
-- R. C. Sproul -
To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away
-- Rafael Palmeiro -