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Quotes About Finger

My adrenaline is definitely going, but it's mostly my real, laid-back persona carrying over on stage. When I first started, I was nervous, I'd be really high energy, and I'd be sweating. Now it's just my job. It's like a machinist who goes to work every day and uses the same drill bits. He's not worried about taking his finger off.
~ Kevin Nealon
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
to the Georgian, pointed his finger and exclaimed, "The first secretary poses his candidacy to the post of grave digger of the revolution!
~ Stephen Kotkin
on the Queen's finger was that ring of gold with emeralds set therein, which Mark had given her on her bridal day; but her hand was so wasted that the ring hardly held.
~ Joseph Bédier
Und Herr von Trotta glich einem Virtuosen, in dem das Feuer erloschen, in dessen Seele es taub und leer geworden ist und dessen Finger nur noch in kalter, seit Jahren erworbener Dienstfertigkeit dank ihrem eigenen, toten Gedächtnis richtige Klänge erzeugen.
~ Joseph Roth
If there is some truth in the Zen dictum that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon, then it follows that the notion of pure experience is by no means the pure experience itself. Assuming that such an experience can be found, any attempt to characterize it, even the least reifying one, will betray it.
~ Bernard Faure
I think I've broken every finger, and my wrist on a tennis court in Guyana, and at 33 you get other injuries like hernias and tennis elbow.
~ Nasser Hussain
But I was also very pleased when I heard the Prince of Montenegro got married the other day. I know perfectly well that I am nothing to anyone. But the middle finger is no longer than the pinkie if one measures both against infinity...
~ Halldor Laxness
Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger.
~ Anonymous
God, sit by the freak, why don't you. Excuse me, do you have Tourette's? What? Tourette's Syndrome. It's a neurological disorder that causes people to say things they don't really mean. Do you have it? No. Oh, so you were being purposely rude. I wasn't calling YOU a freak. I'm aware of that. That's why I'm only going to break ONE of your fingers after school, instead of all of them.
~ Meg Cabot
You gazed into my eyes, what could I do but linger? I ran my hand through your hair, and a cootie bit my finger.
~ Meg Cabot
You gazed into my eyes What could I do but linger? I ran my hands all through your hair And a cootie bit my finger.
~ Meg Cabot
There is a vast asymmetry in the dynamic here that Billy can't quite put his finger on, even though it's the elephant shitting all over the room.
~ Ben Fountain
And what do you keep in such a pretty little box, sir? Snuff?' Oh, no! It is a great treasure of mine that I wish Lady Pole to wear tonight!' He opened the box and showed Stephen a small, white finger.
~ Susanna Clarke
Yeah,' he said with slow satisfaction. 'You need it bad. Worse than I do.' I gasped, 'Is it a competition? What do I win?' 'Shh. Turn off for a few seconds, Adrien.' 'A few seconds? Is that all it's--' I caught my breath as his finger moved knowledgeably, unerringly. 'There's the off button,' he murmured.
~ Josh Lanyon
Tea?" Daniel asked, signaling to the innkeeper. "Please. Or anything that is hot." She pulled off her gloves, pausing to frown at a little hole that was growing at the tip of her right forefinger. That wouldn't do. She needed all the dignity she could muster in that finger. Heaven knew she shook it at the girls often enough.
~ Julia Quinn
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.
~ E. B. White
Doctor Prunesquallor was running a long tapering finger up and down a stalactite of wax and smiling horribly.
~ Mervyn Peake
Yet in general all writers can really do is lift a sensitive finger to the cultural breeze and sense a coming change in the weather; very seldom do they actually change it themselves.
~ Michael Pollan
She swung the Stetson around and around on her finger, lifted it and whirled it through the air. It landed right on target, sitting up straight over his arousal.
~ Beverly Barton
She touched the words with the tip of her finger and smudged the pencil and then saw how the smudge stayed on her finger. Words from his hand transferred to her skin.
~ Julie Cohen
We've got a war going on, the demons are invading, you got implanted by the Prince of Darkness and you're worried I'll make you stick your finger up your bum and bark like a dog? This is serious!' - Mr. Fogarty
~ Herbie Brennan
Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car.
~ Jared Padalecki
The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?
~ Edgar Wright