Fingers Quotations

I want a car that will last 10 years or longer because I totally hate the process of researching, shopping for a new car, and then haggling for the price. I wish I could just snap my fingers and my car is there.

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.

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

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting around, not working. I'm sure that'll happen, too.

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector.

I climbed brick facades as a kid. You'd kind of stick your fingers in there.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

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.

Winning 'Best Vlogger of 2013' from MTV is a really wonderful honor, and I wanted to thank all of you out there that used your fingers and clicked a button and made this happen, and to all of you that accidentally clicked my name and you were trying to click Jack and Finn, I'm sorry.

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot know in advance what disaster to those you love would be too much to bear faithfully, and like everyone's, my faith is weakly conditional in some ways. I hope, I pray not to lose it. My fingers are crossed. Also my heart.

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious.

Typing with your fingers or thumbs is sooooo 2012. I tweeted that earlier in the year. I type with my eyes. Not only that, I navigate my computer, create and play music, keep a calendar, conference call, lead web X meetings, text and, obviously, tweet with my eyes.

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

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.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.

I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

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.

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.

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

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.

I was born with six fingers on each hand.

My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me.

I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got to feed them, he's got to pay them, he's got to take care of the camp followers and the gamblers and the people who cause disorder.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

'Puzzlejuice' will get your brain juices flowing as try to juggle both falling boxes and a growing list of letters to create words from. There are power ups to unlock and massive explosions that will shake your mobile device to its very core if you are quick enough with your fingers and your thoughts.

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

I ain't learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that's one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren't for them fingers I wouldn't be going now.

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

Guns require a finger to pull the trigger.

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

A ring is a halo on your finger.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

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.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.

I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself.

You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK.

When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing happened when I went up to hit.

We're keeping our fingers crossed it's not a fracture. He's gone to hospital for x-rays. It might just be the join but you worry when you see the ankle twist like that.

We're more like brother and sister now. I'm not trying to paint too rosy a picture. I think it took quite a few years to be able to sit down and talk to each other. It's all very nostalgic for us as well. There hasn't been an angry word between us, fingers crossed.

We're in this together. I'm sure outside sources will point fingers (at the defense). But last year it was a different story, remember? We're a team and that's what this all comes down to.

We're just sitting here with our fingers crossed and hoping the eye goes east of us. If the TVA transmission lines go down, we'll go down, because we're dependent on them. Our system is in good shape, but when you get 80-100 mile per hour winds, it's hard to predict what's going to happen. We're making preparations for the worst, but hoping for the best.

We're just keeping our fingers crossed that we can work everything out. I guarantee from our end, we're doing everything we can to make it happen. ... We're going to re-negotiate from a free agent's standpoint, and we're obviously going to be in my opinion the most competitive team in the market for our guy.

We're hoping that the situation will stabilize, and we're even crossing our fingers that we might see some relief with costs going down.

waiting until the end of the year and crossing our fingers and hoping that our students will pass.

What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!

With this hand you can clutch objects such as a ball, you can move the thumb out to one side and grip objects with the index finger in the way you do when opening a lock with a key, and you can wrap your fingers around an object in what we call the power grip - like the one you use when you hold a hammer or a microphone.

With the wind chill, it's forecast to be that way Monday, so we kind of got our fingers crossed.

People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.

We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.

We have to get back out there and work our butts off. The only way to get a bad game out of the way is to go out there and work really hard to get better. ... Everyone has to go out there and not point fingers at anyone and continue to find ways to win.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.

There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger.

You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.

We are also supposed to get two more trucks with ice and water today, ... But I'm crossing my fingers because I don't know that that will happen since no one from FEMA or MEMA or anybody has bothered to check on the town of Richton. I know the Gulf Coast is devastated, but if we don't take care of our elderly they are going to die and then our town will be devastated.

We are all keeping our fingers crossed and praying and are very elated by every small, however minute, sign of progress. But I think there is still a very long way to go... And hopefully Sharon will survive and come back.

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

You can't put your finger on who I am. I can't put my finger on who I am.

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

We did know he started getting what we call 'burners' once in a while - a tingling in his fingers from some hits - which are very, very common,

The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.

The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

We shall have a much changed line-up that's for sure. There have been a lot of strange results in this league recently, fingers crossed ours will go to plan on Saturday.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.

You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.

If you shake my hand, better count your fingers

When things don't go as well as we all planned, there's enough fingers to be pointed everywhere, but it's certainly not coming from (management),

When things are going bad is when you sit back and observe and see how people react. The thing I enjoyed about it is nobody pointed fingers and when you go through a stretch like that, a lot of negativity can creep in and I didn't see that. I liked that, and you don't see that too much.

There are other issues a lot more serious, and you guys (the media) should direct your attention toward taking care of that, ... Ask yourselves how much you've donated to Katrina (relief). Everybody should be pointing the fingers at themselves.