Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Leary

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

Charlaine Harris

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

Chris Carpenter

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.

Jan Brett

When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

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.

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

George A. Romero

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

Elton John

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.

Eli Manning

The quarterback, you can play with a lot of big injuries. You get a little injury like an index finger or a thumb that most people can play with, sometimes you can't. I've stayed away from some of those.

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

Emilia Fox

I have a heart tattoo on the inside of my middle finger on my left hand.

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.

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.

Time passed and they did not move a finger to help him.

We're not going to get into the violation history or finger pointing. That's in no one's interest at this point.

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.

Agatha Christie

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

We plan to stay with this group over the next two years so that we can keep our fingers on the psychological pulse of this population.

Trombone Shorty

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

Nobody knows; you can't put a finger on it. That could be a bounce, that could be luck, it could be a lot of things. It could be one guy skipping a workout or it could be one guy being late. So, we need to make sure we keep our blue-collar work ethic.

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.

Katherine Parkinson

I've become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time.

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.

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!

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.

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.