Fingers Quotes - Page 5

• Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

  Herbert Spencer

  Marriage, Gentleman, Noses

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• Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Inspiring, Women

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• A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Hands

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

  Brian Eno

  Hands, Ideas, Decision

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• But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue forever, and never have an end.

  John Jewel

  Law, Forever, Heaven

  John Jewel (1848). “The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury”, p.290

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• If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Missing

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• Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Sand, Faster

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• Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Butterfly, Wings, Butterfly Wings

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• I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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• I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Good Day, Thinking, Ifs

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• Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Responsibility, Winning

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Life, Roles, Cinema

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• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  Harold MacMillan

  Safety, Might, Triggers

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• For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

  Lawrence Welk

  Trying, Sound, Bottles

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• Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

  James Howell

  Men, Snuff, Another Man

  "English Proverbs". Book by James Howell, 1659.

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• I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.

  Matt Sharp

  Player, Keyboards, Kind

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• Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

  Joseph Heller

  Order, Worry, Delay

  1961 Catch-22, ch.17.

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• God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  God, Heart, Grass

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.121, eBookIt.com

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• If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

  Nikki Cox

  Fake People, Nails, Would Be

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• It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, World, Reason

  A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 2 (1739)

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• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

  Sara Coleridge

  Feet, Snow, January

  Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.7

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• I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

  Bill Kreutzmann

  Moving, Kids, Play

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• That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

  Johnny Mercer

  Eye, Black, Magic

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• God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

  Ninette de Valois

  Country, Gnarly, Feet

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