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Tag Name "Fingers" (682)

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Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer
Sarah Kay
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Fingers get habits - have memories of their own.
Anne Bosworth Greene
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Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.
Francis Quarles
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Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.
Elihu Burritt
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A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
Vivian Stanshall
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If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an obscure sky, and the snow looks up like a face dirtied with tears. Should I cry out and see what happens? There could only be a stranger wandering in this landscape, cold, unfortunate, himself frozen fast in wintry eyes.
Frank O'Hara
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You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.
Elizabeth Smart
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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Voltaire
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If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.
Fred Frith
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One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
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Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.
Wallace Stevens
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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't know what you think until it dribbles from your brain down your arm and into your hand and out through your fingers and shows up on the computer screen, and you read it and realize: That's really true I believe that.
Ellen Wittlinger
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Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
Warsan Shire
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
Gary Oldman
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Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair.
Elvis Presley
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Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
Will Rogers
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How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?
Gayle Forman
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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy I said: 'T will keep. I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.
Emily Dickinson
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If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
Willem de Kooning
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Come on, baby.” Paris combed his fingers through her hair. “Look past my terrible personality and hideous looks and throw me a bone. Teach me how to woo you properly.” She snorted. “I’d argue the hideous looks part.” “But not the terrible personality? Ouch. That hurts, baby.
Gena Showalter
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Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers. Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?
Eoin Colfer
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The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
William H. Gass
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The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
Georg Buchner
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