Top 29 Moving Finger Quotes
#1. The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Omar Khayyam
#2. I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.
Ogden Nash
#3. Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.
Herbert Read
#4. A moving finger having once written could never be lured back to unwrite.
Isaac Asimov
#5. I never thought about the green, but LA has a lot of greenery.
Alex Prager
#6. It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
Buffalo Bill
#8. Let still woman take
An elder than herself: so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart,
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn,
Than women's are.
William Shakespeare
#9. Tessa has an obsession with Target that I'll never understand.
Anna Todd
#10. Since we can't extract beauty from life, let's at least try to extract beauty from not being able to extract beauty from life.
Fernando Pessoa
#12. Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
Steven Kotler
#13. I'm into women. I just really like women a lot.
Tony Danza
#14. You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
Stephen Sondheim
#15. I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class.
P.G. Wodehouse
#16. Any woman who, by her own admission, is capable of shooting a man in cold blood is likely the perfect wife for me.
Vanessa Kelly
#17. Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.
Sharon Gannon
#19. The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
W. H. Auden
#20. Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.
Stephen Richards
#21. To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers.
[Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#22. Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.
Zora Neale Hurston
#23. My neighbor raised a shaking index finger to point at the saguaro. "That moving cactus ... and the big bug ... and you, you spooky bastard. What are you?
I stuffed my hands in my pockets and grinned winningly at him. "Why, I'm the Antichrist, of course.
Kevin Hearne
#25. Earl Scruggs wears two finger picks and a thumb pick, and by alternating them, he can play about as fast as he wants. So it's this action. You know, you couldn't move one finger that fast, but all three, it's pretty easy, and it's kind of an incredible leap.
Earl Scruggs
#26. I have been incapable of moving, even a finger or an eye, for at least a year now. I feel relatively certain about this timeframe because I have been watching the crepe myrtle outside the window of the room I am in...
Jason Leclerc
#27. Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
Hedy Lamarr
#28. I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.
Jim Carrey
#29. Love is a magnetic force, you can't see it, but it can pull you toward the beloved.
Debasish Mridha