Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Schmidt

We never know whose fingers are on the keyboard on the other end.

Wallace Stevens

Just as my fingers on the keys / Make music, so the selfsame sounds / On my spirit make a music, too. / Music is feeling, then, not sound.

Stuart Pearce

I think Trevor has stretched ligaments in his knee but we will not know for sure until all the tests are done. I have got my fingers crossed.

Malcolm Muggeridge

like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone.

I was very impressed with what he had to say. He talked about all the positive things and pointed his finger at the future in a very complimentary way. This is his moment to share his vision, and I thought he presented that vision very well.

Tony Raines

I don't know anything officially, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. It's an opportunity of a lifetime. I think these are the right guys at the right time for me.

Bode Miller

I don't have to put a finger on it. That's what's nice about being me instead of you. You're the one that has to put a finger on it.

I didn't, for whatever reason, get our guys to play hard. I can't point fingers at our guys because I didn't get them ready to play the way they needed to.

I don't know, there's just something about them because they always find a way to win. I can't put my finger on it, but they've just got this thing.

I can't put my finger on why these guys are not hitting in the clutch. I don't know what it will take to get them going. There's not one thing I can say to them. They have to make it happen.

Danny Clark

I can't put my finger on what we need. We have enough players here to get it done.

I can't put my finger on what's the problem.

Mike Taylor

I can't put my finger on it right now. Some on the team play decently, some other guys are not there.

Keep your fingers crossed. Wednesday looks like a break.

Richard Thompson

Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things sometimes. The fingers of your imagination aren't quite as hidebound as your real fingers.

Glen Campbell

It hurts and I'm going to have to have it operated on. Sometimes, I have to use just three fingers on my left hand when I play.

Larry Coker

I don't think we have slipped talent-wise. I think we're talented enough to play with anybody. But I do sense our guys are not happy, not satisfied, and they shouldn't be, with last season. There really was some embarrassment there for all of us. No doubt, there is a sense of urgency. We need to go out with excitement, with hunger, every week. We had that at times last season, but not all the time. I guess you could point the finger at me, but we did not play with consistency.

Robert Webb

If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd just drum his fingers and go, 'When? How long is that going to take?'

Dusty Baker

He hadn't had anything to this point. We'll keep our fingers crossed.

He had his finger in everything. He was a great photographer.

Ian Paisley

There is a finger pointing tonight at IRA-Sinn Fein.

We're obviously not doing something right. We can't keep pointing fingers at the kids. I have to look at Pam and myself first before we start looking at others. I knew there were some playing time issues, but what does it lead to? Is this the reason (for the departures) or is something else there?

Whenever you let a good football team like the Colts get on a run, it's tough to put your finger in the dike.

William Osler

One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.

Eric Wilson

No one is getting help here. There is one number to phone for Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Everybody's fingers are getting numb trying to get attention, and we are not getting it.

Jeetan Patel

My fingers are crossed, because I don't think I'll be the No 1 spinner.

My head was exploding, my stomach ripping, and even the tips of my fingers ached. The only thing I could think was, "If I live, I will never run again!

There are only so many fingers we have for the hole in the dike,

Should it have been done properly? Yes. But I'm not here to point fingers who didn't do what they were supposed to do.

Laura Bush

She and I were like two fingers crossed,

Leaves are fingers of God: they're pliant, confident, proud and beautiful. That's how we should be...

Yotam Ottolenghi

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 go to all of the trade shows, know a lot of the people making marketing decisions, and I want to keep my finger on the pulse of snowboarding.