Best 280 quotes in «fingers quotes» category

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a rainbow, got the string around my finger.

It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business.

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.

I've got my finger in a lot of pies.

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

I was born in the late '50s, was a child of the '60s, then the '70s, then the '80s, then the '90s, and I have mental fingers in all those pies.

I've never been a pizza eater. I don't like to hold it and fold it and always burn the roof of my mouth. I hate having greasy fingers.

I was born with the biggest middle finger on Earth.

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

I watched his fingers clench and unclench, and I wondered if he was dreaming that they were wrapped around my neck.

I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath.

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.

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.

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Learn to listen with your fingers.

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.

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.

My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.

No one has the right to shake his finger in your face.

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

Nothing's impossible for Rickey. You don't have enough fingers and toes to count out Rickey.

Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!

our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

One finger up, and I'm out Cause you ain't even worth two

One thing nobody knows about me is that three of my fingers are edible, but I cant tell you which fingers.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.

Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. It’s what I cling to when everything else—everyone else—slips right between my grasping fingers.

Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers.

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.