“When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.” LittlesSaidUsedMotherAirNeededDrawsFingersPencils Author:Oscar Niemeyer
“I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.” MenMindMayLittlesSelfBodyTogetherHoursDrinkTablesFingersDareCornersBreadMeatBrownCeremonyTurkeysAnother ManOnionsChewing Author:Miguel de Cervantes
“Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.” MenGivingLittlesEnoughFingersGenderRopeWraps Author:Diane Ackerman
“I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture.” WellsLittlesWaterMorningSunBuildingSittingFingersBonesShadeCakeAfternoonPottersSketchingOld BuildingsChilled Author:Howard Pyle
“At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.” PeopleFirstsLittlesStillsSometimesLinesFiguresTablesFingersWarmDinnerBreadSculptureBourgeoisDinner TableDoughModellingBickeringFrench Bread Author:Louise Bourgeois
“All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an object to hurl, you'd end up with that little spheroid small enough to nestle in your fingers but big enough to have some heft, lighter than a rock but heavier than a hunk of wood. Its even, neat stitching, laced into the leather's slippery white surface, gives your fingers a purchase. A baseball was made to throw. It's almost irresistible.” IfsGivingYearsLittlesMadeEndsEnoughBigsWhiteRocksDesignObjectsPicksBaseballFingersWoodsSurfaceIrresistibleLeatherNeatLightersSlipperyHunk Author:Dave Dravecky