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“The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.”

I Can Shows Hands Today Courses Individual Music Teacher Trouble Musician Models Jazz Fingers Copycats

Author:Lester Young

“Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your heart. You get the tone, and the fingers will follow.”

Ifs Writing Heart Book Play Easier Fingers Tone Writing A Book Flutes

Author:Eddie Cahill

“I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.”

Two Games Sleep Behinds Practice Struggle One Day Angel Wings Fingers Butterfly Like A Butterfly Sneaking Up

Author:Danilo Kis

“I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb.”

Has Beens Bigs Would Be Certain Lucky Fingers Revenge Bombs Rejected Could Have Been Pipe Manuscripts Envelopes Sprung Sprung Up

Author:Gardner Dozois

“Don’t brush anything under the rug. Don’t point fingers or do the blame game. A team is a family, and we’re in this together.”

Together Games Team Blame Fingers Brushes Blame Game

Author:Erik Spoelstra

“People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.”

People Way Writing Persons Art Different Sometimes Results Common Magic One Thing Type Draws Flow Fingers Paint Inspired Mysterious Different Ways Mysterious Ways

Author:Nnedi Okorafor

“A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.”

Want Mean Children Done Enough Grows Born Growing Up Knowing Childhood Pure Draws Clean Fingers I Realized Bitter My Children Damage Maps Pool Routes Tainted

Author:Hiromi

“You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening, and not try and explain it away or give it justifications or anything, because at this juncture, we still, by our finger nails, have the chance to make a difference, and turn this around. And to not take part and to just watch…….., but if you don't push back, if you don't face it and confront it for what it is, it'll just takeover, and then no one will be free.”

Ifs Needs Giving Trying Looks Stills Faces Turns Differences Chance Watches Happenings Fingers Making A Difference Justification Nails Takeovers Juncture

Author:Vivian Kubrick

“Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion.”

Giving Sometimes Play Beautiful Sound Emotion Pure Fingers Accordions

Author:Richard Galliano

“I know this year hasn't gone as we'd all like it. But please, please, everyone do not forget about that 2013 season - the worst to first, the tragedy of the Boston Marathon, everyone rallying around the city, the finish line, the duck boats, everything, celebrating at home. Might be down a little bit in the win/loss column right now, but do not let that erase any of those memories from last year that I get to wear a ring on my finger for. I'm proud to be a Red Sox for those times.”

“I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?”

Feelings Hands Water My Own Simple Divine Wind Flow Fingers Currents Surface Ease Pockets Receiving Shells Smooth Aspire Shallow Jeans Filling Vessel Serene Spills Grasping Receptive Chalice

Author:Katrina Kenison

“If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.”

Ifs Humans Littles Long Two Ten Fingers Wide Billions Cells Paris Los Angeles Atoms Thread Yards Dna Nucleus Width

Book:The Cosmic Serpent

Source: The Cosmic Serpent

“If you saw me with my clothes off you'd see that my body is in great shape and ready to take on the world.... I could snap my fingers and have any man I wanted, but I have too much respect for myself for that.... People can look then wonder about the taste and the sensuous delights of the dish, but when it comes down to it they simply can't afford such an expensive luxury.”

People Ifs Men World Looks Body Wanted Wonder Saws Too Much Ready Taste Shapes Clothes Fingers Delight Luxury Expensive Dishes Snaps Sensuous

Author:Anna Kournikova

“It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.”

Children Different Humor Political Choices Names Parent Calling Fingers Pointing Partisans Name Calling Bickering Pointing Fingers Different Choices

Author:George W. Bush

“Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.”

Different Light Today Natural Forget Rooms Quality Fingers Forgotten Planning Satisfied Architect Static Every Second Natural Light

Author:Louis Kahn

“Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.”

May Young Four Industry Fingers Contracts Bankers Vigorous Leeches Talkies

Author:Dalton Trumbo

“The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.”

Fingers Critics Valuable Ideology Pumpkin Smashing Smashing Pumpkins

Author:Billy Corgan

“I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!”

People Thinking Should Pieces Painting Jokes Fingers Competent Fabricate

Author:Jenny Holzer

“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.”

Source: Conversations with Salman Rushdie

“...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.”

Knows Men Said Might Pleasure He Man Habit Mets Criticism Fingers Impulse Smoking Justified Bosoms Resent Onions Pals Twirling

Book:The Cat-Nappers

Source: The Cat-Nappers

“I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die.”

Ifs Persons Care Film Dies Fingers Busy Don't Care I Don't Care Toilets Baskets

Author:Woody Allen

“The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.”

Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus

“That is my best friend because it is a gift of the creator to Africans. It is a spirit. Marijuana has five fingers of creation...it enhances all your five senses.”

Spirit Five Creation Fingers Creator Senses Marijuana My Best Friend Five Senses Five Fingers

Author:Fela Kuti

“For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.”

“The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.”

People Trying Wells Whole Running Grows Knowing Truth Is Fingers Running Away Tails Lizards Whole Truth Twinkling

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.”

Hands Fingers Pockets

Book:De Kooning: paintings, 1960-1980

Source: De Kooning: paintings, 1960-1980

“There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping on his knees and hands, trickling in glops down his legs, and dripping off the stool in sticky strands. It was in oozing ponds and crawling pools over most of the floor. Long fingers of it had crept into the hearth. It smelled vile.”

Heart Long Hands Green Fingers Legs Violent Shoulders Knees Dramatic Covered Pool Quantity Ponds Howl Strands Crawling Sticky Dripping Stools Slime

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

“You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?”

Thinking Fingers Speed Fists

Author:Mike Tyson

“I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.”

Knows Use Night Christ Sun Virtue Special Humility Flower Exercise Shadow Fingers Hunger Edges Absence Moonlight Dew Sap Gripping

Author:Samuel Rutherford

“How many years have slipped through our hands? At least as many as the constellations we still can identify. The quarter moon, like a light skiff, floats out of the mist-remnants Of last night’s hard rain. It, too, will slip through our fingers with no ripple, without us in it.”

Years Stills Hard Hands Light Lasts Night Moon Rain Fingers Quarters Slips Floats Last Night Mist Constellations Ripple Remnants

Author:Charles Wright

“It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the plate (hopefully). Just remember not to twist your elbow or wrist. It should be thrown, with the wrist and grip set, just like your fastball, slightly off center - with the same velocity and intensity.”

Should Remember Like You Down And Fingers Hopefully Thrown Intensity Plates Twists Wrists Elbows Velocity Fastballs

Author:Steve Carlton

“To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.”

Feels Should Use Sports Half Practice Distance Fingers Speed

Author:Steve Carlton

“There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.”

Men Differences Wise Sweet Fool Fingers Fools And Wise Falling In Love With You

Author:Diogenes

“Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.”

Thinking Important Play Bigs Song Felt Fingers Currents Trends Screws Wizardry

Author:Kirk Hammett

“Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see out. They move around in smaller boxes, painted different colours, with wheels on the corners. They need this box-culture because each person thinks of herself and himself as locked in a box called a 'body,' arms and legs, fingers to move pencils and tools, languages because they've forgotten how to communicate, eyes because they've forgotten how to see. Odd little planet. Wish you were here. Home soon.”

“When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.”

Moving Grace Food Duty Cooking Dancing Fingers Kitchen Dancer Culinary Ballet Precision Mixing Ballet Dancer Carving Chopping Dexterity

Author:Craig Claiborne

“See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.”

People Inspirational Dance Fingers Clubs Theatre Bunch Bourgeois Tipping

Author:Etta James

“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of the heart's knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of the dreams.”

Knows Heart Dream Body Night Language Sound Secret Silence Known Ears Fingers Naked Thirst

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.”

Said Moments Hands Mother Love You Son Rose Fingers Rounds Stem Thorns Mother Son

Author:Barbara Mertz

“Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.”

Men May Play Earth Heaven Kindness Fingers Tunes Smallest Good Will Sweetest Harps

Author:Elihu Burritt

“I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.”

Political Fingers Naked Chests Yelling Towels

Author:Eric Massa

“You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you're turning the pages.”

Book Hard Funny Reading House Pages Dollars Fingers Extras Fifty Reading Books Cents Wet

Book:Bob Hope

Source: Bob Hope

“And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.”

Men Said Jesus Fingers Burden Lawyer Woe Woe Unto

Author:Luke the Evangelist

“There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core, then there's no point in sending more Humvees and Apaches.”

Ifs Problem Rooms Military Broken Fingers Iraq Core Plenty Pointing No Point Pointing Fingers Debacles Apaches

Author:Bruce Riedel

“I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me; look at the moon.”

Looks Awareness Moon Fingers Look At Me Pointing Pointing Fingers

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality.”

Reality Fingers Pointing Astrology Pointing Fingers

Book:The Inner Sky: The Dynamic New Astrology for Everyone

Source: The Inner Sky: The Dynamic New Astrology for Everyone

“Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.”

Love Is Fingers Romantic Love

Author:Morton Hunt

“The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.”

War Home Together Violence Fingers Bounds International Terrorism Intimate Links Fists

Author:Riane Eisler

“Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words.”

Way Needs Persons Joy Grief Skins Fingers Sensations Irrelevant Garments Joy And Grief

Author:Kate Grenville

“The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.'”

World Looks Heart Said Different Opinion Ambition Ideals Twenties Dresses Lays Fingers Critics

Author:Annie Fellows Johnston

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