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Quotes About Finger

Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?
~ Eoin Colfer
Start to flavor your finger with the toothpaste. Then wrap your finger with a soft cloth, add a bit of the paste, and massage your kitten's teeth and gums with that. Stop when she protests too much. Be satisfied if you can do one side—you simply want to build up her tolerance level.
~ Amy Shojai
Although people can force a trap to close by running a finger along it, carnivorous plant enthusiasts consider this rude.
~ Amy Stewart
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
Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
~ Robert Herrick
The barberry berry sticks on the small hedge, cold slits the same crease in the finger, the same thorn hurts. The leaf repeats the lesson.
~ Robert Lowell
One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course, Alice could not stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate. 'Herald
~ Lewis Carroll
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
~ Luciano Berio
To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.
~ Steve Carlton
But which of us can hope to probe with questioning finger the dim thoughts that flit in a fool's head?
~ Flann O'Brien
When you get made into the Mafia, they cut, prick your finger. And they take the blood and put it on the picture of a saint. Then they burn it. That's the Mafia induction ceremony.
~ Michael Imperioli
It's very difficult to put your finger on why a certain actor or actress will capture your attention, and you'll think they're right for a role. There's an essence to a person.
~ James Gray
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
~ David Hume
The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.
~ Neal Asher
La mayoría de los hombres tienen el dedo anular más largo que el dedo índice, y la mayoría de las mujeres tienen el índice más largo que el anular.
~ Rosa Montero
The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.
~ Russell Hoban
Truth is like the moon in the sky. Words are like a finger. A finger can point to the moon's location, but it is not the moon. To see the moon, you must look past the finger. To look for the truth in books, the Sixth Patriarch was saying, is like mistaking the finger for the moon. The moon and the finger are not the same thing. Not same, old Jiko would have said. Not different, either.
~ Ruth Ozeki
His mental image of the artist was the novelist, who writes into being a world where everything, from a finger to the cosmos, is expressed as part of an unfolding of consciousness.
~ Joel Smith
I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.
~ Kevin P. Ryan
The Ghost Machine album was actually written when I was going through spiritual depression, as that was written right after Motograter and just prior to Five Finger Death Punch.
~ Ivan Moody
He stepped up onto the porch, put a finger under her chin and lifted it, gazing into her eyes. "Melinda, you're getting to be a real handful." "Yeah?" she asked, smiling. "So are you.
~ Robyn Carr
By the pond, an old yew tree had grown against a millstone, like a finger swelling round a wedding ring.
~ Roger Clarke
How awful for the string of inequities to be brought out in his mind, that useless rosary, so he can finger again those memories:
~ Andrew Sean Greer
I was numb. Once, I had an infected finger. A splinter had gone in and I couldn't get it out. My father said he would try to get it out for me. Before he started "operating", he held an ice cube on my finger to numb it. That's how I felt now. As if someone had applied a giant ice cube to my body and to my brain, as well.
~ Ann M. Martin