Fingernails Quotes

• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  Aaron Allston

  Luck, Hanging On, Way

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• What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Country, Sarcasm

  "Creative Leadership: Mining the Gold in Your Workforce". Book by A. S. Migs Damiani, p. 168, 1998.

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• The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  James Joyce

  Art, Invisible, Creation

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

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• Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

  Emilio Estevez

  Home, Hands, Everyday

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• I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Good Things, Bites

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• The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Girl, Years, Given

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• You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

  Ann Wilson

  Fake People, Hair, Video

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• See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Biting, Happens

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• I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Way, Painting, Habit

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Boring, Wanted, Sitcom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  Larry Wall

  Oatmeal, Computer, Appeals

  Usenet article, 1994.

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• For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Death, Phones

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• When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

  Mario Batali

  Dirty, Book, Writing

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2004.

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• Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

  Jodi Picoult

  Horse, Coffee, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.

  Sienna Miller

  Skins, Sides, Bites

  "Sienna Miller: Girl on Fire" by David Katz, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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• Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.

  Diana Lopez

  Mother, Children, Wrecks

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• Fingernails are for opening things and toenails are for storing precious minerals off the ground.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Humor, Toenails

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• Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

  Angela Carter

  Battle, Toenails, Habit

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• At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.

  Robert Hilburn

  Order, Class, Roots

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• Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.

  Catherine Marshall

  Happiness, Girl, Baby

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• I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

  Mary McGrory

  Dirty, Years, Optimism

  Mary McGrory, Phil Gailey (2006). “The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary”, p.161, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

  Charlaine Harris

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1138, Penguin

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• Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?

  J. K. Rowling

  Perspective, Suffering, Losing

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• Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

  Suzanne Collins

  Humorous, Catching Fire, Target

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.387, Scholastic Inc.

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• Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets.

  John Fante

  Children, Love You, Home

  John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.89, Canongate Books

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