Fingers Quotes

• There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

  Charles Morgan

  Love, Godly, Men

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• There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.

  Vance Havner

  Son, Bigger And Better, Laziness

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• Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Feet, People

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

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• Learn to listen with your fingers.

  Helen B. Taussig

  Heart, Listen To Your Heart

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• There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

  Diogenes

  Wise, Sweet, Men

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• When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

  Louis Nizer

  Kids, Responsibility, Men

  My Life in Court ch. 1 (1961)

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• The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

  Omar Khayyam

  Moving, Writing, Breaking Silence

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.194, University of Virginia Press

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  My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

  Bette Davis

  Work, Passion, Hands

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

  Julia Child

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Art, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

  Marian Anderson

  Hate, Hair, Prejudice

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• God's finger touched him, and he slept.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Grieving, Funeral

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 85

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• A ring is a halo on your finger.

  Douglas Coupland

  Halos, Rings

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• The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Independent, Organization, Fists

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• I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

  Jon English

  Heart, Rose, Cups

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• On the other hand, you have different fingers.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Thinking

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• The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

  Marc Chagall

  Knowing, Thumbs, Born

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• Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Confusion, Uncomfortable

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• Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Moving, Thinking, Keys

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• Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Life, Future

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• I know this year hasn't gone as we'd all like it. But please, please, everyone do not forget about that 2013 season - the worst to first, the tragedy of the Boston Marathon, everyone rallying around the city, the finish line, the duck boats, everything, celebrating at home. Might be down a little bit in the win/loss column right now, but do not let that erase any of those memories from last year that I get to wear a ring on my finger for. I'm proud to be a Red Sox for those times.

  Jonny Gomes

  Memories, Home, Loss

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• At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

  Kurt Masur

  Thinking, Doctors, Age

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• Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Hypocrite

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.46, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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.

  Roland Barthes

  Desire, Skins, Language And Power

  "A Lover's Discourse (Talking)". Bok by Roland Barthes, 1977.

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