Work your fingers to the bone - whadda ya get?…

Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? Boney fingers.

— Hoyt Axton

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as…

— Patience Strong

I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even…

— William Butler Yeats

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

— Heinz Guderian

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are…

— Anais Nin

[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were…

— John Carlos

Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

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

— William Ralph Inge

I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This…

— Katrina Kenison

Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions-…

— Pam Brown

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the…

— Ida B. Wells

Yes yes you can count on me - Fingers

— Nikhil Saluja

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

— Fergus Henderson

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany