Quotes with finger

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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Andy Warhol It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Khaled Hosseini Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Herbert Spencer Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Barrett Foa Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • William Wordsworth Spires whose silent finger points to heaven.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Nadine Gordimer The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Alfred Whitney Griswold The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
    Alfred Whitney Griswold
    American historian and educator (1906 - 1963)
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  • Billy Corgan The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • William Hazlitt The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • William Hazlitt The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • David Lloyd George The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Mel Brooks Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
    Mel Brooks
    American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer (1926 - )
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  • William C. Bryant Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • John Lennon When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bill Buford When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Bill Mauldin While a guy at home is sweating over his income tax and Victory garden, a dogface somewhere is getting great joy out of wiggling his little finger. He does it just to see it move and to prove to himself that he is still alive and able to move it.
    Up Front
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Ben Carson You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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