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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
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'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
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He had scarcely told the lie when his nose, which was already long, grew at once two fingers longer.
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He offers a handshake, crooked five fingers
They form a pattern yet to be matched
On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me is pagan poetrySource: Songs Pagan Poetry, from Vespertine (2001) -
His wicked sense of humour suggests exciting sex
His fingers focus on her
Her touches
He's Venus as a Boy!Source: Songs Venus as a Boy, from the CD single Venus as a Boy -
I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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It's a bad cook who can't lick his own fingers.
Source: Romeo and Juliet 4, 2 -
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
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My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken]
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People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
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Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.
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When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
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