Quotes About Fingered

#1. What does a man live for but to have a girl, use his mind, practice his trade, drink a drink, read a book, and watch the martins wing it for the Amazon and the three-fingered sassafras turn red in October?
Art Immelmann is right. Man is not made for suffering, night sweats, and morning terrors.

Walker Percy

#2. [Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

Jeffrey Rosen

#3. Bright morning comes; the bloody-fingered dawn with zealous light sets seas of air ablaze and bends to earth another false beginning. My eyes open like cornflowers, stick, crusted with their own stale dew, then take that light.

Iain Banks

#4. It was the furthest thing in the world from the rosy-fingered dawn of poetry and old Technicolor movies; this was an anti-dawn, damp and as pale as the cheek of a day-old corpse.

Stephen King

#5. Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.

Vince Cable

#6. The two fingered peace sign always fascinated me, because just in a turn of the hand it turns into war.

Me

#7. It's as if there's a fumble-fingered but powerful universal force at work, always trying to put wrong things right.

Stephen King

#8. And these?" I crooned as I fingered his nipple rings.
"Something of a souvenir from Fiji."
"You couldn't just get a t-shirt?

Priscilla West

#9. A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said.
"Actually, she wasn't a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel."
"Easy mistake to make," Jem said.

Cassandra Clare

#10. I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.

Octavia E. Butler

#11. She fingered the card and looked at the younger man. "James Edward, did you offer the man a cool drink?" James Edward said, "You want a Scrapple?

Robert Crais

#12. Gabriel flashed him the one-fingered Mudra of Contempt.

Walter Jon Williams

#13. As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less.

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. soon as rosy-fingered morning came forth from the first grey dawn,

Homer

#15. Prayer is a many fingered
and kaleidoscopic thing - it folds
and unfolds inside of you. It enters
the many rooms you cannot enter.

Cecilia Llompart

#16. by. "And you want to have sex with me?" "No," she said in a sarcastic voice. "I thought I'd rip your shirt off and then force you onto the bed and make you watch while I fingered myself." Even

Jessica Clare

#17. What women wanted to be eaten alive, choked by a thrusting tongue? Not me, I wanted to be played like a violin, strummed pianissimo, in largo timing, fingered into legato, and let it grow into crescendo.

V.C. Andrews

#18. Oh sharp diamond, my mother!
I could not count the cost
of all your faces, your moods
that present that I lost.
Sweet girl, my deathbed,
my jewel-fingered lady ...

Anne Sexton

#19. Glory's like a bowling ball. She gets picked up, fingered, and thrown in the gutter, and yet she still comes back.

Suzanne Wright

#20. I see Christina, emerging, chewing and sticky-fingered, between two panels of the tent. Partly out of bravado and partly in order to test what will happen, I bite her on the arm as hard as I can

Kathy Page

#21. But as for Gabriel Sullivan." Ren reach out his six-fingered hand toward me. I clasped it. Warmth flooded me. But something else. Certainty. Trust. Compassion. Courage. He pulled his hand back, smiled. "That is all I can tell you.

Linnea Sinclair

#22. What about a Princess Bride?"
"Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?

Ally Carter

#23. She put
two-fingered guns to her temples when she saw us: red patch
of smoker's skin around her mouth like a raw sun rising.

Adrian Matejka

#24. Bill said, "She is mine."
I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture. Eric laughed, and Bill said "Sookie!" in shocked admonishment.
"I think that Sookie is telling us she belongs to herself," Eric said softly.

Charlaine Harris

#25. He had married this creature, this figment of the imagination of a million masturbatory men, semen-fingered and self-satisfied.

Gillian Flynn

#26. I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues.

Bruce Sutter

#27. Caroline, I'm mad enough to beat the shit out of you. But I'm not so mad I can't think. You fingered me to the cops because there's something you know that you're scared to talk about. I want to know what it is.

Sara Paretsky

#28. The one who fingered me like he was digging to China

Kresley Cole

#29. A deistical prater, fit to sit in the chimney-corner of a pot-house, and make blasphemous comments on the one greasy newspaper fingered by beer-swilling tinkers.

George Eliot

#30. In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.

Ian Fleming

#31. Lord Petyr," Ned called after him. "I ... am grateful for your help. Perhaps I was wrong to distrust you." Littlefinger fingered his small pointed beard. "You are slow to learn, Lord Eddard. Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed down off your horse.

George R R Martin

#32. Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on.

J.R. Ward

#33. Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle.
(Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)

Tamora Pierce

#34. Gabriel noticed with satisfaction the way Julia intentionally fingered one of her diamond earrings, as if she understood his revelations and received them gladly. As if she knew he was revealing his love for her through art. His heart swelled.

Sylvain Reynard

#35. He was in his midforties, tall and overweight, a sausage-fingered vulgarian in a slick suit.

Terry Hayes

#36. The only options I have are a four fingered shuffle and an aging vibrator whose batteries, the last time I looked, were leaking a sticky liquid.
I long to do the same."
Time Was by Paul Adams

Paul Adams

#37. She had fat fingered the sext! It was beyond awkward. Frantically, she typed in an apology, "Ned, meant to send boob photo to someone else. So sorry. Nice ass.

Samantha Bohrman

#38. Dyslexia, for me, is rather like being a six-fingered typist on LSD!

Stephen Richards

#39. Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.

Cassandra Clare

#40. He called it a ptero-dactyle, meaning 'wing-fingered.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#41. How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

Ian McEwan

#42. A single doctor, with the body of a Greek god, sat across from me at a candlelit table, and all I could think about was a greasy-fingered motorcycle mechanic.
I refrained from smacking my own forehead.

Lisa Kessler

#43. Remember the stories you used to write? About that billionaire. You made fun of his fingers! Woo-hooo. 'Short-fingered vulgarian,' you called him.

Candace Bushnell

#44. In Minneapolis there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone, to share the agony of their days. That

Erik Larson

#45. There's good news and bad news about 2 Fast 2 Furious , the moronic follow-up to The Fast and the Furious and a contender for the worst movie of 2003. The good news is that it's better, albeit marginally, than Freddy Got Fingered . The bad news is that it's 15 minutes longer.

James Berardinelli

#46. Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

John McWhorter

#47. Goodness," Tessa said. "If you keep seeing six-fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions." Jem choked on his tea.

Cassandra Clare

#48. But he was coming. He would be here soon, all sweet and brave and shattered and kind. He would come carrying and clever-fingered and oh so unaware of oh so many things. He was rough against the world, but even so ...

Patrick Rothfuss

#49. My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it's faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

Jodi Picoult

#50. He would find the six-fingered man. He would go up to him. He would say simply, "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die," and then, oh then, the duel.

William Goldman