Fingers Quotations | Page 2

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

maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to play one day)and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,andmillie befriended a stranded starwho's rays five languid fingers were;and molly was chased by a horrible thingwhich raced sideways while blowing bubbles:andmay came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)it's always ourselves we find in the sea.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

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

She told me to dunk my hand in this container filled with wax. I just put my fingers in. I didn't realize she really meant dunk the entire hand.

She's been an inspiration to all of us. We were really crossing our fingers hoping that she would get it.

She's just keeping her fingers crossed. She's a competitor and sitting out is not something she wants to do.

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.

She has walked down the street and had perfect strangers point their fingers at her. Her career is destroyed; absolutely destroyed.

She and I were like two fingers crossed,

She pitched a really good game. I felt some of her pitches weren't breaking the way they usually do, that could be attributed to not feeling fingers the way you usually do.

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks.

Obviously we will be keeping our fingers crossed for Cologne. It would be great if we can win the title in front of our own fans.

Obviously, you check tht she's safe, she's clean, got all the fingers and toes, like that's going to help them through life. It'll help them walk, but you can't pull them out and check their IQ or anything.

Of course I'm concerned. I'm concerned about all our Olympians. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. We signed off on Peter once he left (on Monday). I'm just hoping he really is healthy enough to play.

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.

My fingers began to itch. I wanted to hang this exhibit. I wanted no interruptions. I wanted to see them and put them up together.

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

My arms have mutinied against me brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.

Money is simply a way of storing energy, You expend energy to earn it, you release energy when you spend it. But money is a very inefficent form of energy storage. Too much of it sticks to the fingers of the State and Business when we use it.

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!

Maybe best pop female vocal, I am kind of keeping my fingers crossed but you never know what is going on behind the scenes, but good bums come in all shapes and sizes''.

Next week I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the bulls will come back from the beach and do a little buying.

Obviously, it's to protect the player. It's not like the old days when you hold up three fingers and you ask how many fingers you're holding up." ()

Nobody was comfortable; everybody realized the opportunity they had. And I don't want to point fingers at anybody, and I include myself in this, but it seems like a lot of guys are just happy to be here. Guys don't seem to realize the opportunity we have, but they need to realize that on a lot of other teams, we wouldn't be getting this opportunity.

People who wave digital cameras at shows are the same people who sit in front of you at hockey games and wear those giant foam-rubber fingers that say, We're number one!'

Pointing fingers is the last thing I'll do. It's always my fault. And accountability, I think everyone else feeds off that.

One of the great things about being older is you can be a sounding board, a good listener. But to be honest, I'd just as soon look down a loaded shotgun barrel than snap my fingers and suddenly be 94 today! Growing old isn't for the the weak at heart. The hardest thing would be to see your body backfire. And the whole wrinkle thing is really odd.

I was rubbing her hand one night and she began wiggling her fingers. My husband and I took turns rubbing her hand to keep her fingers moving.

I wouldn't go that far. Let's just say it's fingers crossed for that one, we face a very big test there.

I have had knee injuries before at school in rugby, and I have broken fingers and stuff like that. I have had little injuries, but never anything like that, keeping me away from what I love doing for such a long time.

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.

I don't have enough fingers (to count). I don't think we did anything well. Aliquippa is a much hungrier basketball team. We are fat, and they are hungry -- and it's showing.

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 the full story but we'll be in touch with him as soon as possible. We'll keep our fingers crossed it's not too serious. Knowing Harry he'll do everything he can to get fit.

I am keeping my fingers crossed. I am going to do all I can do so that PAL will not close down,

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.

I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.

I look forward to seeing (the festival) with great enthusiasm and with fingers crossed that it can really make a positive difference here by bringing people into a greater awareness that all different kinds of theater can be made and presented here,

I have my fingers crossed that the new development at the end of Main Street can help turn the corner on a downward trend.

I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day - the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills - have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks.

I did have a few parents who were a little mad when I told their children to not stick their fingers in the cages. I think they would have been more mad, though, if they were bitten and I didn't say anything,

I don't think anyone will have a handle on how the fingers of the Dan Ryan will be affected. All the roads are interconnected, and one accident can have a domino effect on everything.

If you are going to have a fire, they have to be attended to and completely out when you leave. The only way to be sure is to stick your fingers in the ashes when you are done.

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?'

He will be looking to clinch that position, but who knows? I haven't given up hope that it is going to me. It just does not look as though I am the favorite at the moment. I am still keeping my fingers crossed. I have not heard anything officially but we should know by the end of the week.

He had this gizmo, a ball that spun on a rod. You kept putting your fingers on the ball, spinning it as though you were gripping and throwing a pitch. You did that in the dugout, took it home with you. The idea was to teach you to release the ball so that it had more movement.

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

He hurt it at the end when he got that put-back, so we'll hold our breath and keep our fingers crossed that he'll be OK (on Thursday) and the next day. He's going to be sore, we know that, but if anybody will play hurt, he's certainly a guy who's done it time after time.

He is making progress. He hit on the field so that's a big improvement right there, so will keep our fingers crossed.

He'll still have his fingers up to his elbows in it. He'll always be here.

We're positive because we saw what he did for Ireland as a player. He has played in three World Cups, so he has experience of those situations, and fingers crossed he can pass them on to us.

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?

We've got to keep working with these developers and encouraging them to revitalize. We keep our fingers crossed and we're constantly developing the space, to get information out for prospective tenants and developers.

Having their fingers burned, they're being more active in making sure the Hill knows.

He's actually fine. He has a few superficial lacerations on his face, and his fingers are cut, but that's about it.

Going to America is the best prize, so fingers crossed it will work out on Broadway.

He's got to get more focused on those four (majors). He's got Dubai, Qatar, fly eight time zones, play Bay Hill (in Florida). That's not going to work. It might work for him, but I'm surprised he's still doing it. He loves to play overseas. But he's got the fingers in so many pies, you just don't know.

He's being too hard on himself. I will say, when you see Chad with the puck on his stick in that position, you expect it to be in the net. It didn't happen this time, but he's the last guy I'd be pointing fingers at with all he's done for us.

He was one of my best friends. . . . Those are the people you can count on the fingers of one hand.

He's playing the best football now. Maybe he doesn't get the records, maybe he doesn't have the yards or have the most touchdown passes, but from a game operational standpoint, I think Tom Brady throws the ball as well as anybody in football, manages the game as well as anybody in football, and has three rings on his fingers in the last four years, and he's a winner.

He can point fingers as much as he wants. It's not up to the federal government to cover the shortfall.

He cannot see beyond his own nose. Even the fingers he outstretches from it to the world are (as I shall suggest) often invisible to him.

I wouldn't say that he is all the way back. He's taken some of the right steps, but I think there has been too little time and too few championship rings in the last three years on his fingers to make people and corporations forget about his missteps completely.

I would think the end is pretty close. I thought there would be a lot more activity across the board. I'm surprised, but I'm going to cross the fingers that we don't have another surprise.

Keep your fingers crossed. Wednesday looks like a break.

I symbolized doping, ... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

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.

I think the overall health is OK. Everybody has something wrong with them but it is not debilitating. We just have to keep our fingers crossed everyday that we can keep everybody on the court.

I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.

I think that the (high price) environment is poised to last for the next four to five years...because of the lack of the supply. You can't snap you fingers and bring new mines on.

L.A.M.B. is a fashion line that -- fingers crossed -- will just get more and more sophisticated, ... What's different than what's out there is the way I put things together. And, if you look inside the pants, you'll find secret details in there.

I think we realized the opportunity we had might be slipping through our fingers and we wanted this bad.

I think actually there's another young lady who would like to do it and so I've got my fingers crossed for her. I think it's Ellen. I think she would be good.

I think it's unfair to blame President Bush here, ... What I would blame is the bureaucratic red tape throughout the system that is out of control with little credibility and way too turf-conscience. Rather than point fingers in blame, the state and the federal governments need to develop a new emergency system.

It gave us the opportunity of completely cleaning that up and replacing it rather than doing a botch up and keeping our fingers crossed.

It gives people a little peace of mind that they can wipe off their cart handle, especially if they have children who tend to stick their fingers in their mouth.

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.

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

Just as butterflies natural ability to fly is disabled if marred by human fingers our spiritual wings are disabled if marred by the human fingerprint of fear.

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.

I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just acoustic guitar, mandolin, and sometimes bass. I really like the texture the mandolin added to my music, but my fingers were too big to play it... I could only do little riffs and whatever.

Last week I was watching a bit of golf on TV and I could feel my fingers and my feet tapping because I'm ready to go now.

Last season I counted four fingers at them for the number of European Cups Liverpool had won. Next time, I can just stick my whole hand up.

Large retailers and national computer manufacturers will typically look to point fingers at problems that are outside their control. Smart consumers will recognize that a technology consultant, the same kind that helps small businesses in the area, has a lot more skin in the game with building 'relationship equity' than a large national retailer or computer manufacturer.

I think everyone's keeping their fingers crossed that we may have gotten off lightly.

I saw many fingers on triggers, ... When I get back to the States.

I saw what I thought was more polished. I told him it looked like you grew feathers on your fingers and feet. There was something more graceful, quicker, easier about the way he was moving. I was psyched about that.

I remember when I was a boy, my father used to walk around without one of his fingers that he lost in an accident in the workplace.

Our fingers are crossed for good winter weather.

Our ticket sales are tracking about 35 percent ahead of the Women's Open at this time. If that holds true, we're looking at well over 130,000 spectators. The X-factor is the weather. If it rains for a week straight and you've got muddy conditions, that's not conducive to people walking around. Or if it's horribly hot like last year. That obviously keeps people away, but you cross your fingers and hope the conditions allow for spectators to have an enjoyable time.

People have had their fingers burned and will be careful about going back into the market.

I won't deny that I flipped my fingers in his direction, but only because I was so disgusted and frustrated at being humiliated by a fellow manager.

I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.

I was hopeful to be here. I was counting on my fingers what four months was, and my doctor told me that would be really pushing it.

I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently in your head, you have learnt nothing.

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

The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.

The alternative would be that you're dealing with this thing all year long. A week she's good, a week she's bad, and back and forth. I'm hopeful that by keeping her out those two weeks that we got to the root of the problem and fixed it. But, again, we'll never know. We'll just keep our fingers crossed.

That was when the contractors got their fingers burned. They thought the proximity to the UK market would still have a positive effect, but there just wasn't the out-and-about mentality of '96. They were holding out for an enormous amount of money and they pretty much bombed.