Fingers Quotes - Page 6

• Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.

  Ken Mehlman

  Hands, Effort, Tears

  "GOP leaders agree to joint Katrina hearings", www.cnn.com. September 8, 2005.

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• And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

  Justin Guarini

  Responsibility, Knowing, Issues

  "Justin Guarini says he has no hard feelings for 'IDOL' - really!" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. January 23, 2006.

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• The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Pain, Giving, Littles

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• I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

  John Steinbeck

  Long, Tools, Literature

  "Writers at Work". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1977.

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• It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, Commercial Art, Would Be

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• If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Technology, Men, Buttons

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

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• Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

  William C. Bryant

  Funny, Running, Truth

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• A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

  Suzi Quatro

  Sound, Bass, Woods

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• I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.

  Myles Horton

  Thinking, People, Technique

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.177, Temple University Press

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• I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

  Todd Barry

  Thanksgiving, Chickens, Chicken Nuggets

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• There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.

  Jo Bonner

  Offering, Hands, Storm

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• First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writing, Kissing, Romantic Love

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 38.

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• Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

  Judith Jamison

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

  Loretta Lynn

  Lightning, Bugs, Diamond Rings

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• There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America

  Arlo Guthrie

  America, People, World

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• How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

  Gary Oldman

  Hands, Directors, Film

  "Batman Begins". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

  Les Paul

  Guitar, Firsts, Bigs

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• She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Middle

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.118, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.

  Jane Harman

  Problem, Solve

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• The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.

  Malcolm Campbell

  Hot, Facts, Tire

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• I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.

  Jan Brett

  Children, Book, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Sunshine, Wind

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.48, Diversion Books

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• I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Deep Affection, Race, Views

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• Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hands, Judging Yourself, Judging Others

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