Quotes About Finger Nails

#1. Her finger-nails were painted five different colours, looking like the paints in a child's paintbox; and she was as innocent as a child.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. He was going to have permanent scars in his palms in the shape of his finger nails if he wasn't careful. His hand was forgetting how to form any shape but a frustrated fist.

Kim Dare

#3. It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

Frances Farmer

#5. God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

John Mortimer

#7. I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration?

Elaine Dundy

#8. Britney painted her finger nails and it really seemed like they had a blast.

Shar Jackson

#9. The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.

Jack Kerouac

#10. Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Italo Calvino

#11. 'X-Men' films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.

Josh Helman

#12. My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

Judy LaMarsh

#13. Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

Walter Isaacson

#14. If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

Bruce Cockburn

#15. Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Anne Stevenson

#16. D'yer see it? This finger, laddie, could send ye to meet yer Maker!
Sgt. Deisenburger stared at the black and purple nail a few inches from his face. As an offensive weapon it rated quite highly, especially if it was ever used in the preparation of food.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

Emily Oster

#18. Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

John R. Allen

#19. Progress really is possible.

Michael Bloomberg

#20. In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands.

James Nasmyth