Fingers Quotes - Page 4

• Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Art, Children, Painting

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2005.

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• I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

  Ringo Starr

  Band, Reason Why, Broke Up

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• If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

  Bob Kane

  Bills, Absence, Ifs

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• 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.

  Morton Hunt

  Romantic Love, Love Is

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• The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

  William Ralph Inge

  Thinking, Pulse, World

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• I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Rehearsal, Sometimes, Tempo

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• The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

  Mickey Rivers

  Wind, Fields, Firsts

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

  Ford Frick

  Player, Yelling, Pointing

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• We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.

  Shawn Wayans

  Pulse, Watches

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• What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man...God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

  Benny Hinn

  Father, Men, Hands

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• Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Happy, Pulse

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

  Diogenes

  Men, Mad, Insanity

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• I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

  Molly Ivins

  Faith, Believe, Arkansas

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

  Kathleen Blanco

  Offering, Hands, Helping

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  Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Death, Suicide

  "The 2,000 Year Old Man". Animation, Comedy, 1975.

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• I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Happy, Fathers Day, Dad

  "R.I.P. Rodney Dangerfield", www.indiewire.com. October 6, 2004.

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• To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Needs, Aim

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

  George Eliot

  Order, Play, Quality

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.129, 谷月社

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• Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

  Larry Flynt

  Love, True Friend, Vocabulary

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• You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.

  Heinz Guderian

  Hands, Fists, Spread

  "Guts & Glory: World War II". Book by Ben Thompson, Hachette UK, 2016.

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• The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
  Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
  Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
  Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

  Omar Khayyam

  Moving On, Writing, Science

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• Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Fighting, Wife

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

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• We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

  Freddie Mercury

  Zeppelins, Cases, Wells

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• The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Young, Born, Fingers Crossed

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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