Fingers Quotes - Page 2

• That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Needs, World, Difficult

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• I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

  Neil Young

  Workout, Thinking, Keys

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• Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Practice, People, Brain

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• Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Law, Speak English, Skills

  "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.

  Midge Ure

  Men, Expression, Talking

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• Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.

  Mary Douglas

  Religious, Bazaars, Body

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• Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!

  Bob Marley

  Life, Music, Conceited

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• The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.

  Laura Prepon

  Sexy, Believe, Looks

  "TV Q&A: "That '70s Show"'s Laura Prepon". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. February 13, 2007.

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• I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

  Andrew Greeley

  Writing, Disability, Terrible

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• I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed.

  Joe Lando

  Jobs, Actors, Lines

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• You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

  Pharrell Williams

  Air, Keyboards, Canvas

  FaceBook post by Pharrell Williams from Apr 10, 2012

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• I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

  Ike Turner

  Havens

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• My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

  Frank Lane

  Home, Brain, Type

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• I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

  Sydney Pollack

  Mean, Kids, Toes

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• Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.

  Tom Lehrer

  Eight, Two, Missing

  Song: New Math, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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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.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Echoes, Keys, One Day

  "A Lost Chord" l. 1 (1858)

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• Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

  Mark Foley

  House, Honor, Trying

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• Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

  Maria Monk

  Blessed, Sleep, Doors

  Maria MONK, William MONK (pseud?.), Rev. J. J. SLOCUM (1837). “Awful Disclosures ... Second edition, revised by the Rev. J. J. Slocum”, p.60

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• If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

  Andy Summers

  Sound, Violin, Way

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  Ida B. Wells

  Cutting, Lynching, Ears

  "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.

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• If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Rocks, Play, Use

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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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Caring, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

  Charley Pride

  Eye

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• They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

  Fay Wray

  Down And, Helping, Considerate

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• To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Going Away, Let It Go

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