Best Fingernails Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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”

God Artists Fingernails Impartial

Author:James Joyce

“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.”

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Book:No Hope For The Hopeless At Kings Park

Source: No Hope For The Hopeless At Kings Park

“There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under one’s fingernails.”

Pain Suffering Service Chemicals Cleaning Submission Bdsm Fingernails Masochism Safeword

Author:Agnostic Zetetic

“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.”

Pain Hurt Weak Brave Thrilling Sword Fingernails Sharden Body Of Blade

Book:Sharden

Source: Sharden

“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.”

Children Mother Next Nervous Wrecks Fingernails

Author:Diana Lopez

“I think the most tortured place in hell should be reserved not for traitors, but... for cowards. The weakest, most spineless losers. Because it seems to me that traitors? At least they made a choice. But cowards? They just run around biting their fingernails, totally afraid to do anything. Which is totally worse.”

Thinking Should Made Seems Running Choices Hell Coward Loser Reserved Traitor Biting Fingernails Spineless

Book:The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition

Source: The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition

“The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.”

Men Needs Wells Done Evil Voice White Clear Cutting Quiet Office Raises Moved Paint Cheeks Smooth Collars Dickens Dens Fingernails White Collar Quiet Man

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the burning of heretics — Muslims in particular. Now, of course, I am not accusing the Attorney General of pulling out anyone's fingernails or burning people at the stake (at least I don't know of any such cases). But one does get the sense these days that the old Spaniard's spirit is comfortably at home in Ashcroft's Department of Justice.”

“See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails”

Ifs Inspiration Happens Biting Fingernails

Author:Will Rogers

“I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.”

People Knows Way Want Giving Feels Years Looks Long Song Music Know How Serious Hair Luck Including Ugly Fortunate Songwriting Heels Songwriters High Heels Fingernails

Author:Dolly Parton

“If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.”

Ifs Eye One Thing Blind This Life I've Learned Gypsy Things I've Learned Fingernails Blind Eyes

Author:Roger Ebert

“Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.”

Firsts May Left Hell Rich Fingernails

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts.”

Body Action Left Bits Influence Building Series Environmental Internals Genes Selection Fingernails Morphology Environmental Influences

Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.”

“Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.”

People Today Earth International Flight Dirty Permaculture Fingernails

Author:Bill Mollison

“I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.”

Knows Years Next Optimism Absurd Dirty Gardening Next Year Gardener Fingernails

Book:The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary

Source: The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary

“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.”

People Thinking Should Hands Stars Bits Walks Garden Should Have Mess Gardening Dirt Movie Star Fingernails

Author:Amanda Donohoe

“Sadly, I cant avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!”

People Littles I Can Age Cant Headings Grim Clinging Fingernails Reaper Grim Reaper

Author:Terry Wogan

“Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.”

“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.”

Littles Problem School Guy Girl Bits Black Trouble Car Authority Loud Grades Jackets Leather Motorcycle Fingernails After School Leather Jackets

Author:Melissa Marr

“These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.”

“The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”

“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.”

Ifs Persons Four Magic Crosses Green Fishes Come Up Grass Leafs Ants Plunge Fingernails Clovers Chilly Four Leaf Clover

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.”

Years Humans Littles Human Beings Millions Species Size Survived Doing Nothing Fingernails Shellfish

Author:David Attenborough

“Fingernails are for opening things and toenails are for storing precious minerals off the ground.”

Humor Funny Opening Minerals Fingernails Toenails

Author:Kristen Schaal

“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.”

Whole Action Film Perfect Rooms Comedy Air Dirty Fingernails Action Films Draining

Author:Morris Chestnut

“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.”

Looks Break Like You Red Fingers Polish Bleeding Fingernails Break Off

Author:Elizabeth Smart

“Your fingernails are a joke, you've got no fangs, you can't see at night, your pink hides are ridiculous, your reflexes are nil, and you don't even have tails! Of course people aren't content! ... Now if tigers weren't content, that would be something to wonder about.”

People Ifs Would Be Night Courses Wonder Jokes Ridiculous Tails Tigers Fangs Reflexes Fingernails

Author:Bill Watterson

“You look like you deep fry your hands before you bite your fingernails.”

Looks Hands Like You Bites Fingernails

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“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.”

People Years Poor My Friends Pulling Family And Friends Unspeakable Fingernails

Author:Mark Strong

“I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails done, and I've cut my own hair longer than other people have cut my hair.”

People Done My Own Cutting Hair Mets Cat Fingernails Toenails Metrosexuals

Author:George Clooney

“I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose.”

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Author:Emo Philips

“We were doing this close-up of my character on a cell phone, and the director's just like "Cut! Can we get somebody else's hand in there?" I do bite my fingernails, and you don't want to see a fat, bitten thumbnail on a 30-foot movie screen, so I get somebody with really nice, sexy hands and put 'em in there.”

Want Character Hands Nice Cutting Feet Directors Phones Sexy Screens Fats Cells Ems Bites Cell Phone Really Nice Fingernails

Author:Miles Teller

“The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.”

Years Values Girl Given Years Ago Prize Fingernails

Author:Beryl Bainbridge

“If she replaces her eyebrows with a Machiavellian triangle, paints her fingernails blue, and dyes her hair some color you'd see in a comic book it's not too attractive to me-because it's too familiar. Extremes aren't necessary. Even 'high fashion' frightens most men. When I have to wait in the dentist's office, I sometimes look at fashion magazines. To me, most of the models look like they have rickets or scoliosis of the spine. They look less like woman than caricatures.”

“"Stand up against the wall!" That's what everybody gets offered, especially women. When women started appearing on TV again in something other than the girl or the mother role it was all, "Get up against the wall," or, "The skin underneath her fingernail would tell me that she," you know, forensic stuff. Oh, God gross. Now, they're hunting terrorists.”

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Author:Debra Winger

“To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.”

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Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”

Art Artist Behinds Existence Creation Remains Invisible Young Man Indifferent Refined Refining Fingernails Handiwork

Author:James Joyce

“You could paper the globe with evidence that there are demonstrable cognitive and physical disparities between what are crudely called human "races." But you could fit all the evidence of innate equality on your pinkie fingernail with room to spare.”

Humans Rooms Race Fit Paper Evidence Human Race Globes Spares Innate Cognitive Disparity Fingernails

Author:Jim Goad

“There are an awful lot of things in the cut of street drugs that eventually make you sick. I reached a point where the skin around the edges of my fingernails used to hurt all the time. And it would peel away easily. Now, that must have been from some poison in the cut.”

Has Beens Used Hurt Cutting Streets Drug Skins Sick Edges Awful Poison Fingernails

Author:George Carlin

“I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.”

Sides Skins Bites Fingernails

Author:Sienna Miller

“When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.”

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Author:Mario Batali

“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”

Needs Mind Country Funny America Garden Usa Sarcasm United States Of America Cowboy Cleaners Fingernails Cowboy Wisdom

Author:Will Rogers

“My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.”

Soul Sea Thousand Ten Size Wide Miles My Soul Beer Stakes Thousand Miles Fingernails

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“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.”

People Want Giving Two Kids Lying Turns Three Week Sand Shore Loan Jersey Two Weeks Hanging On Fingernails Jersey Shore

Book:Tis: A Memoir

Source: Tis: A Memoir

“You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark - I'm on fire almost - I'm burning away into nothing - but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am.”

Knows Feels I Can Matter Body Moving Night Dark My Own Fire Blood Skins Who I Am Burning Electricity Glowing Fingernails

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up”

Light Would Be Eye Sea Skins Blue Green Shining Fishes Currents Flesh Tiny Thick Shells Merry Exotic Mermaid Underwater Fingernails Seaweed Jade Shining Through

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Just because he has black fingernails doesn't mean he's a monster-that's how you've defended yourself for years.”

Years Mean Black Monsters Fingernails

Author:Ellen Schreiber

“Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.”

Source: Diary: A Novel

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