Best Fingers Wisdom
2004 Fingers quotes by 1277 unique authors
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Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.
— Dalton Trumbo
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I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke…
— Jenny Holzer
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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars.…
— Salman Rushdie
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...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can…
— Helen Keller
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I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I…
— Woody Allen
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The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as…
— James Madison
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That is my best friend because it is a gift of the creator to Africans. It is a spirit. Marijuana has five fingers of creation...it…
— Fela Kuti
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For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may…
— John F. Kennedy
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The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail;…
— Ivan Turgenev
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Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
— Willem de Kooning
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There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?
— Mike Tyson
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I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence…
— Samuel Rutherford
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How many years have slipped through our hands? At least as many as the constellations we still can identify. The quarter moon, like a light…
— Charles Wright
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It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the plate (hopefully). Just…
— Steve Carlton
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To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly…
— Steve Carlton
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
— Diogenes
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Basically I just had to say, Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me…
— Kirk Hammett
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Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see…
— Richard Bach
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When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying…
— Craig Claiborne
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See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip,…
— Etta James
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Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.
— Elihu Burritt
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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round…
— Barbara Mertz
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I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in…
— Eric Massa
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