His Fingers Quotes
182 His Fingers quotes by 126 unique authors
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The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not…
— H. L. Mencken
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When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not…
— Derren Brown
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He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting…
— Geoff Dyer
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No boyfriend wants to see their girlfriend in a video with a big, handsome black dude feeding his fingers into her mouth, do they? But…
— FKA twigs
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I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and…
— Eddie Van Halen
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The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a…
— Jerry Stahl
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Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in…
— Alexander Kotov
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Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is…
— Irwin Shaw
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No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step…
— John Updike
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I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world...
— Frederic Chopin
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I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.…
— George R. R. Martin
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...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands…
— Truman Capote
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He has so many muscles he has to make an appointment to move his fingers.
— Phyllis Diller
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That's sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something...real." Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his…
— Jess C Scott
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My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's…
— Dick Dale
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She thinks that he looks like Elvis, when he runs his fingers through that jet black hair.
— Joe Diffie
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Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.
— Roberta Flack
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.
— John Ruskin
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Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When…
— C.S. Lewis
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When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
— Louis Nizer
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Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers…
— Ginger Rogers
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I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch…
— Steve Vai
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