Top 100 Quotes About Fingernails
#1. She loosened her grip on his hair and lightly scraped her fingernails over his cheek to his incredible lips.
"I could kiss you all day."
Laith's gaze intensified.
"All right.
Donna Grant
#2. Waiting for her answer was like pulling out my fingernails one by one.
Jamie McGuire
#3. I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do listen. I have a lot of songs I've wanted to re-record just because of how advanced technology is and the different instrument sounds that I'm more experienced with.
Andrae Crouch
#4. It's easy to tell the dirtiest minds - look for the cleanest fingernails.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#5. Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge ... The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.
Angela Carter
#6. What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers
#7. She'd never seen a boy with hands like that, with long, delicate fingers, beautiful but still masculine. His fingernails were long too, almost crystalline, tapered to points. They were the kind of hands you'd expect to see under lace cuffs, like Mozart or something.
Kelly Creagh
#8. Fingernails are for opening things and toenails are for storing precious minerals off the ground.
Kristen Schaal
#9. The trouble was, all their eyes came to me when I opened the door and Morrie grinned a my-girl's-gonna-get-herself-some grin. Colt looked like he wanted someone to tear his own fingernails out by the roots. And Cal looked like he was having trouble not busting a gut laughing.
Kristen Ashley
#10. My toes are a total wreck, my fingernails worse, and god knows my hair could use a registered nurse.
Jack Bunbury
#11. Look who's full of himself," MeLaan said from her chair.
"He's always full of himself," Wayne said, cracking a walnut. "Mostly on account of him eatin' his own fingernails. I seen him do it.
Brandon Sanderson
#12. Looking at her nails, Aomame had a strong sense of what a fragile, fleeting thing her own existance was. Something as simple as the shape of her fingernails: it had been decided without her.
Haruki Murakami
#13. chewing on her fingernails when she was anxious. She wasn't allowed to do that anymore.
Phoebe King
#14. I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there.
Arundhati Roy
#15. Life is supposed to be messy. Being human means you will get our heart broken and your fingernails dirty.
Kaitlyn Jane Mauro
#16. I want him to suffer. I've put up with him for three years and I want him to die slowly. Rip his fingernails off. Cut out his tongue. Fuck him with his own dick.
Dawn Cano
#17. I hate you." "Only because of the way I make you feel." My fingernails eat into my palms. "Only because you bring out the worst in me." "Oh no, luv. I bring out the life in you.
A.G. Howard
#18. You look like you deep fry your hands before you bite your fingernails.
Anthony Jeselnik
#19. Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.
Catherine Marshall
#20. Looking down at her fingernails, she also asked me had I not in my family a certain strange strain. I countered by inquiring whether she would still want to marry me if my father's maternal grandfather had been, say, a Turk.
Vladimir Nabokov
#21. I've got some bad news for you, Larry. The sad truth is, I'd rather pull out my fingernails one by one than sleep with you." She slipped out of the low-slung car. "Your breath stinks, Lar, and let's just face it - you're a creep." She slammed the door with such force he winced visibly.
Christine Feehan
#22. Before I could catch it, my heart slammed straight down to my feet, leaving me with a massive hole in my chest. It was amazing how I could just be going along, doing okay, and then suddenly-wham-I missed her so much even my fingernails hurt.
Jenna Evans Welch
#23. Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.
Diana Lopez
#24. The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.
Beryl Bainbridge
#25. Pemphredo had been about to crawl off, but at that she came back and settled down, brushing off her filthy shorts. Deino crossed her legs. Enyo stopped picking at her fingernails with a knife and put it politely away. I kind of felt like I should be serving tea.
Karen Chance
#26. Ah, hello." He gathered his courage. This was just like reading poetry, but subtract poems and add people casually placing hunting knives and daggers on their tables. One of the women was filing her fingernails into sharp points, like claws. Just like reading poetry.
Cynthia Hand
#27. Toyota is smarter about defining the customer and thinking like the customer. In designing new doors for a car targeted largely toward women, Toyota engineers put on long fingernails to see how this would affect opening and closing the doors.
Anonymous
#28. I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.
David Russell
#29. Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has seen its grip on reality slip to the last knuckle in the past few months, is now holding on by its fingernails.
Brian Wesbury
#30. Don't kill the humans, the zombies, the guys in the dark cloaks or the girls that glow like the sun. Oh, or the crazy old woman with the fingernails growing out of her head.
Rhett
David Estes
#31. I almost have no nails left by the time his bubble pops up, but that's cool because everyone has fingernails, and I like to be different.
Tarryn Fisher
#32. Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.
Bill Richardson
#33. I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.
John Rhys-Davies
#34. My sister's voice is Minnie Mouse and a dash of fingernails down a chalkboard, but only when she wants to bend me to her will.
Alex Adams
#35. I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.
Sienna Miller
#36. You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.
Elizabeth Smart
#37. I could have ripped at those pages with my fingernails in order to get all of the material inside me.
Hanif Kureishi
#38. No, white women like to keep their hands clean. They got a shiny little set a tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gonna take they time with em.
Kathryn Stockett
#39. If you meet a cross-eyed person
you must plunge into the grass,
alongside the chilly ants,
fish through the green fingernails
and come up with the four-leaf clover ...
Anne Sexton
#40. He was willing to pay her to hang around his house and paint Piper's fingernails? It sounded as easy as Britney Spears.
Erin McCarthy
#41. I'm clenching my fists so tight my fingernails leave red crescent moons on my skin. I feel a surge, a heat roar up inside me. As bad as I'm hurting now, he'll hurt ten times worse. That's the only thing that keeps me going.
Jenny Han
#42. Books that take us to an exotic place and never let the grit of that place get under our fingernails...are far less successful. One leaves the places of the book and never feels like one's really gotten one's imaginative passport stamped.
Andrew Lazo
#43. In a slapfight with Jesus
my face bleeds
because no one cut their fingernails back then
Daniel Bailey
#44. We stopped talking for a long, long time. A long time. Nurses came and went attaching and detaching things. Hundreds of thousands of babies were born while we weren't talking. The continents continued to separate at the same page as fingernails growing.
Miriam Toews
#45. I was not weak; I did not cry. But it hurt me, more in a kind of refreshing, thrilling way, than a kind of pain that would cripple me and send me away crying. My fingernails dug into the palms of my hands, and my teeth bit into my lips, my knees were locked, but I could not faint.
Alysha Speer
#46. When I testify, I'll testify. I don't need to sit around chewing my fingernails.
Mark Fuhrman
#47. No girl has ever offered to feed my enemies' fingernails to her cat before."
"Lisa's cat. And don't flatter yourself. At the moment, I'm tempted to feed him your fingernails.
Cecily White
#48. A child's fingernails should never be cut in the first year. The mother must bite them off or he'll become a thief. But when they are first cut at a year old, they must be buried under an ash tree so that witches can't take them and cause the child harm. Lincoln
Karen Maitland
#49. Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.
Morris Chestnut
#50. But he had heavy hands with thick muscular fingers and black fingernails and there was a look of power to him, a coiled tight set to the way he stood, balanced, ugly, slightly contemptuous, but watchful, trying to gauge Chamberlain's strength.
Shaara
#51. Ella. Look at me." Her head tossed. Her fingernails dug into his forearms. But he didn't care. Sliding the fingers of his other hand into her hair, he forced her to face him. "Only you," he whispered when their eyes met. "You're it for me."
~ Tate
Elisabeth Naughton
#52. No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain.
Me.
Alicen Grey
#54. As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.
Jodi Picoult
#55. By dinnertime, Amanda had managed to pick off all of her red nail polish purely out of habit. She was disappointed and silently cursed at herself when she remembered not having anymore to put on. She stared at her fingernails for about twenty minutes for lack of something better to do.
Jason Medina
#56. For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.
Vita Sackville-West
#57. I wanted love to grow back, like the grass when it's mown down. To grow differently, if need be, like children's teeth, like hair, like fingernails. To spring up at will, wild and untended. The chill of the sheets made me shudder, and so did the warmth that followed when I lay down.
Herta Muller
#58. It took him a moment to realize that they had been painted to look like fingernails, and he sighed over the extraordinary range of female vanities.
Helen Simonson
#59. Havens reached into his ear and pinched enough of the latex with his fingernails to withdraw the device. He dropped it on the ground and crushed it under his foot. He didn't care if it was found. It was French-made. Procured for that very purpose.
F*** overwatch. Screw the French.
J.T. Patten
#60. I'm not biting my fingernails.
I'm biting my knuckles.
I finished the fingernails months ago.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
#61. Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails.
Frank McCourt
#62. It's like we're on a rocket ship that we were just painting, and suddenly it took off and we're holding onto the ship with our fingernails.
Esteban Contreras
#63. She gave up combing her hair, which the salt air had reduced to a kind of scrim of brown hessian, and, lying down, proceeded to keep her fingernails short in the way Kate admired least. Then she overslept.
Dorothy Dunnett
#64. I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.
Amanda Donohoe
#65. I've put my friends and family through the wringer over the years, I have to say, by doing unspeakable things to people, not the least of which was pulling out poor George Clooney's fingernails in Syriana.
Mark Strong
#66. P.S. Please don't call me Isabella. That name belongs to a really pretty girl who never wrecks her clothes and who never gets dirt under her fingernails. That's definitely not me. My name is Izzy.
Jenny Lundquist
#67. A soft hushing sound, like fingernails scratching down an endless sheet of paper.
James S.A. Corey
#68. that's already been born. The jury is still out on these findings, but I believe them. All I have to do is think of Sophie, and how there are certain details I wish I could freeze in amber: her munchkin voice or her iridescent pink fingernails or the xylophone of her laughter. It's
Jodi Picoult
#69. The marquis breathed heavily on his fingernails and polished them on the lapel of his coat. "I have always felt," he said, "that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.
Neil Gaiman
#70. I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.
Melissa Marr
#71. I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose.
Emo Philips
#72. He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ...
Philip Kerr
#73. Obsessing over a boy is like throwing precious time into the garbage, and all I have to show for it is chewed-off fingernails, self-doubt, and emotional distress.
Katie Kacvinsky
#74. I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.
Milan Kundera
#75. He'd wanted to track down and personally injure anyone who had ever done harm to her or made her unhappy. He'd tortured himself with painful knowledge: every white-hot factoid he could collect he'd shove up under his fingernails. The more it hurt, the more
he was convinced
he loved her.
Margaret Atwood
#76. For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson
#77. The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails
James Joyce
#78. The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.
William Gaddis
#79. You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
Karlie Kloss
#80. Leaving a lot of movie sets, I've gone home and said, 'How come my hands are clean?' I should finish something and go home with dirt in my fingernails, because then you really feel that you've done something.
Michael Keaton
#81. Sacha snaked one arm out from beneath the blankets and reached toward Cinder, grasping her wrist where skin met metal. Cinder squirmed, trying to pull away, but Sacha held tight. Her hand was marked by bluish pigment around her yellowed fingernails.
Marissa Meyer
#82. If hundreds of thousands of people reach out for a book whose very title promises to deal with the question of a meaning to life, it must be a question that burns under their fingernails.
Viktor E. Frankl
#84. A shiver ran through me. Freaks looked almost human
and weren't. They had lesions on their skin, razor-sharp teeth, and claws instead of fingernails. I'd heard you could detect them by smell, though in the tunnels, that could be hard.
Ann Aguirre
#85. A cad of the lowest order with a soul as black as his fingernails.
P.G. Wodehouse
#86. At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.
Robert Hilburn
#87. I read somewhere that the hair and fingernails on dead bodies don't actually grow, it just looks like they do because the skin contracts as the body dries out. So it's possible to lie even in death, to deceive people from beyond the
Robyn Schneider
#89. When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.
Charles Bukowski
#90. Leafless tree branches swayed in that wind, clawing at the sides of the stone dorm like fingernails.
Richelle Mead
#91. She grips my elbow tighter, somehow finding the thinnest skin to dig her fingernails into. I want to pry her fingers from my arm, but when I look down at her, I can tell she's using me as a lifeline, and I'm not going to be the one to let her drown.
Beth Revis
#92. I bite my fingernails till they look like disease, pull strips of my skin away. Get Daddy's razor out cabinet. Cut cut cut arm wrist, not trying to die, trying to plug myself back in. (111)
Sapphire.
#93. He waits a long time. The captain reviews the fingernails
Anthony Doerr
#94. I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.
Jackie Earle Haley
#95. Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left! ... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#96. I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard!
Hugh Jackman
#97. Doom. You recognize Doom easily. It's a feeling and a taste, and it's black, and it's very heavy. It comes down over your head, and wraps tentacles around you, and sinks long dirty fingernails into your heart. It has a stink of burning garbage.
Gil Brewer
#98. He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there. (ARC p. 63)
Anthony Marra
#99. See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails
Will Rogers
#100. You know one thing I always wanted in a man?" "What?" "Clean fingernails." Justin laughed and looked at his own hand as Amira played with his fingers. "That's a pretty easy request." "You'd be surprised how many men have dirty nails. I don't mean on top. I mean underneath." "I
Celeste Stewart
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