Finger Quotes

Give a man a finger, he’ll put a wedding ring on it!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

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

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

~ Paul Hoffman

Love is tears of joy, this is the baptism of fingers. (L'amour, c'est larme de joie, - C'est le baptême des doigts)

~ Charles De Leusse

If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living.

~ Munia Khan

It tugs at me, filling me with the kind of seasick nostalgia that can hit you in the gut when you find an old concert ticket in your purse or an old coin machine ring you got down at the boardwalk on a day when you went searching for mermaids in the surf with your best friend.That punch of nostalgia hits me now and I start to sink down on the sky-coloured quilt, feeling the nubby fabric under my fingers, familiar as the topography of my hand.

~ Brenna Ehrlich

Hold me like you hold the hand of a little kid who needs you in loneliness, bite my fingers like you bite a giggling kid in front of her friends, and play with me like you play with a kid who only has a few days to live.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Your smile can heal thousands; but your anger can kill millions. Your hand-shake can encourage tens of people while your finger-pointing can turn ten thousands away from you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Before you point fingers at someone, clean them well. You better remove that log on your lens before you can see the speck on someone's own afar!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Hesitantly, I touched the stump where my finger used to be. In my mind, something almost remembered itself, but the fumes of turpentine were making me a little lightheaded; whatever memory was on the verge of coughing itself up was gone even before it materialized. Out the window, I could see a squirrel was stumbling erratically around in circles underneath the old basketball net. Then I realized that it wasn't a squirrel; it was a brown paper bag.

~ Dan Chaon

He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive, somewhere along his back. This soft, subtle spot he couldn't reach was usually covered by something, so that it was invisible to the naked eye. But when, for whatever reason, that spot became exposed and someone's finger pressed down on it, something inside him would stir. A special substance would be secreted, swiftly carried by his bloodstream to every corner of his body. That special stimulus was both a physical sensation and a mental one, creating vivid images in his mind.The first time he met Sara, he felt an anonymous finger reach out and push down forcefully on that trigger on his back. The day they met they talked for a long time, though he couldn't recall much of what they said. What he did recall was the special feeling on his back, and the indefinably thrilling sensation it brought to his mind and body. One part of him relaxed, one part tightened up. That sort of feeling. But what did it mean? Tsukuru thought about it for days, but he was not, by nature, adept at abstract thinking. So Tsukuru emailed Sara and invited her to dinner. He was determined to find out the meaning of that feeling, of that sensation.

~ Haruki Murakami

All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon, and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond.

~ Masaharu Anesaki

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?

~ Walker Percy

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half of winter. A Quinn is like a queen, but draggier, and cheaper to buy and use for personal gain, unless you’re suspicious that you’re poor and illiterate like Jarod Kintz, in which case Quinns could be the spirits of your dead relatives, come to haunt you until you gather a massive fortune through selling books on the internet, to send some back in time through a portal you bought from the NSA, so they would have lived better lives without having to move a finger for their fortune. Oh, yah, and since they aren’t - they’re blue, like smurfs, yet they turn purple whenever tickled on the belly, which is something they seem to rather dislike, since they start biting and scratching when it happens, for no good reason, I might add.

~ Will Advise

One two, one two, Type a word or two. Arrow left, arrow right, Keep those fingers nice and tight.Keys up, Keys down,Move those digits all around.One two, one two, Type a word or two.

~ Jazz Feylynn

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

~ Omar Khayyám

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

~ Adam Smith

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

~ Herbert Spencer

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

~ Brian Celio

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

~ Diogenes

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

~ Louis Nizer