Quotation Explorer - 'Finger'

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird. - Seth Grahame-Smith
Judgments border on figurative cliffs that my pinky finger nudges to the floor of the infinite. - James Emlund
Should is my all time least favorite word. It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves. - Frank Beddor
I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach. - Louise Fitzhugh
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
When you're trapped in a prison, and your heart is broken, and you can't move a finger because you don't know what to do, that's when you wake up. - Robin Gregory
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. - Omar Khayyám
Dreams like a podcast,Downloading truth in my ears.They tell me cool stuff.""Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred.""A god named Fred? - Rick Riordan
Throughout life try to remember...to always keep your head up high and your middle finger higher! - Timothy Pina
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks
FOREFINGER, n. The finger commonly used in pointing out two malefactors. - Ambrose Bierce
It is like a finger pointing toward the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory. - Bruce Lee
I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever. - Coco J. Ginger
you are the mysterious fire at my finger tips - John Geddes
Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.] - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Then I had to decide if I needed to wear shoes that kicked ass or were good for ass kicking, on account of there's a difference you know. ~ Finger Lickin' Fifteen - Janet Evanovich
Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon’s location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger. - Hui-Neng
Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again. - Criss Jami
She smiled at him, that same look of shared understanding, then reached in again to touch his hand, pinching his palm between her thumb and index finger. 'You OK?''I could be on fire, but seeing you would make it all OK,' he replied, his voice as brittle as a three-pack-a-day smoker. - Sean Black
When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned. - Bruce Lee
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. - Rodney Dangerfield
Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran his finger down his sword. "A good plan. But remember, the king's instructions were to keep them alive."-from Eragon, Chapter Title: The Ra'zac's Revenge. - Christopher Paolini
A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans. - Lady Gaga
JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the finger. - Ambrose Bierce
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger. - Cicero
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.…'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. - David Hume
If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Should' is my all time least favoriteword! It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up ourselves andothers. - Frank Beddor
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success. - C.S. Lewis
hit with your fist, not with your finger spread - Prasetya Ramadhan
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life. - C.S. Lewis
A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. - Herbert Spencer
To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself. - Hunter S. Thompson
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. - Khaled Hosseini
Choice betrays character, I said.That’s not true. Loring moved his finger along thesheet as if writing his name in cursive. Eliza, you can’t judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions. - Tiffanie DeBartolo
This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves. - Amish Tripathi
When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others; if that doesn't happen there is nothing wrong with God's finger there is something wrong with your heart - rassool jibraeel snyman
Should' is my all time least favorite word. It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves. - Frank Beddor
A good friend will fit you like ring to finger. - Venezuelan Proverb
I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger. - Maria Montessori
The Sun-Dial at Wells CollegeThe shadow by my finger castDivides the future from the past:Before it, sleeps the unborn hourIn darkness, and beyond thy power:Behind its unreturning line,The vanished hour, no longer thine:One hour alone is in thy hands,--The NOW on which the shadow stands. - Henry Van Dyke
Trace was just one of those guys who caught your attention no matter if you had a ring on your finger. He would be hot 'til the day he died. Seriously. - Chelsea Lynn Charters The Gossip Web
The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat. - Douglas Adams
Some people live their lives being perpetual victims and finger pointers. To anyone who points a finger at someone else and lays all the blame at their feet instead of taking responsibility for their own behavior, I would say, "I see that finger and you know where you can put it? - Donna Lynn Hope
My words are like axe don't dare to interferes with your finger. - Kartik Mehta
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. - C.S. Lewis
The dean put a finger to his chin as he studied this great and troubling mystery. The applicant’s response reeked of insincerity, like, Have a nice day! with all the friendly burned off. Okay, Mr. Darlington. I’ll just be a minute. - Michael Benzehabe
Us. All regrets, left them in the sea, smiling at life as if it was a beautiful dream, because if one thing is certain, clearing the strange foreigh steam. Like the diamond ring that fits in your finger, we are stronger as a steel linker - Lucia Ohanian
and I wonder if Beethoven held his breaththe first time his fingers touched the keysthe same way a soldier holds his breaththe first time his finger clicks the trigger.We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe. - Andrea Gibson
Should’ is my all time least favoriteword! It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up ourselves andothers. - Frank Beddor
Somehow, I did not finger you for a treasure-hunter.Oh, but I am, without shame. Her name is Titianni Aziz. - V.S. Carnes
When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you. - Anonymous
It's a finger snapping kind of day. - Coco J. Ginger
Puck shook her head ruefully. "We haven't even solved the first problem, and I'm worrying about the next one. I must be an idiot.""No," Hush said, wiggling an impossible finger at her. "Only kindness. Very much kindness. - Annette Curtis Klause
If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living. - Munia Khan
It takes 43 muscles to frown and 3 to raise the middle finger. - Mariel
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. - Joseph Roux
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks
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