Fingers Quotes - Page 13

• There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Flower, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 167

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• India has seen a dream of Digital India. From latest science to latest technology, everything should be available at the tip of one's finger.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Motivation, Technology

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• Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find themselves gravitating towards the emotional dilemma that the characters find themselves in. Other people will see that there is some layer of subversions to the storytelling aspect of poking a finger of judgment at certain governments to the idea of foreign invasion, others maybe false pretenses.

  Colin Farrell

  Character, Emotional, Government

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

  Helen Hayes

  Dream, Spring, Winter

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• You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.

  Pam Brown

  Mom, Mother, Appreciation

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• Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

  Robert A. Burton

  Fame, Ends, Testament

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• The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

  Pam Brown

  Horse, Children, Dad

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• He who feels it, knows it more.

  Bob Marley

  Hands, Touching, Feelings

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• I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

  Michelle Williams

  Water, Deep Thought, Want

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• Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They dont know what it is like to read a newspaper and get ink on your fingers. They dont know what it is like to take your shoes off and wiggle your toes under the dinner table.

  Carlos Santana

  Angel, Shoes, Toes

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• The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Judging, May

  Song: Could You Be Loved, Album: Uprising, 1980

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• On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

  Scott Adams

  Life, Wisdom, Keys

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• Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

  Brandon Thomas

  Rocks, Labels, Band

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• I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

  John Dyer

  Paint, Tubes

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• Judge not, before you judge yourself.
  Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.
  The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
  so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Hands, Perfect

  "Song: 'Judge Not'". 1961.

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• Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.

  Bob Marley

  Hands, Judging Others, I'm Not Perfect

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• There was just too much evidence, from too many witnesses, pointing too many fingers at Ryan and his colleague for either defense team to have been able to portray it as a coincidence or a witch hunt or anything short of widespread corruption. And that's why we see this verdict.

  Andrew Cohen

  Team, Defense, Able

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• Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

  Charles Mackay

  Sage, World, May

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”

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• As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.

  Michael Moore

  Loss, Thumbs, Quiet

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• Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How then will you bear Hell-fire? Surely it would be torment enough to have the flesh burnt off from only one finger; what then will it be to have the whole body plunged into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone?

  John Wesley

  Children, Fire, Lakes

  John Wesley (1827). “Sermons on Several Occasions”, p.370

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• We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

  Michael Steele

  Quotation Marks, Use, Process

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• Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.

  Robert Altman

  Wise, Love You, Light

  "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Truth, Eye

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

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• In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.

  Mary Garden

  Giving Up, Writing, Track

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• Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Home, Memorable, Night

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