“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
“Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?” SaidEyeFunHoursWorkBirdFingersFishesNineCowardFactoriesFrozenPackingNoel Author:Paul O'Grady
“I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.” DoeArtSaidPlayFactsHandsLeftWorkStrangeFingersReactionsThank GodDedicationHikingBloodySan FranciscoEnslavementLeft HandBouldersHurling Author:Pablo Casals
“I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.” MenDoeSaidI CanDoneProblemRememberYoungUsedNamesStuffCollegeKeysConversationComputerCompetitionFingersYoung ManExtensionsMechanicElectronicsPasswords Author:William Shatner
“Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here.” HumansSaidDoneAgeSufferingRaceClearWeaknessFingersWoundsHuman RaceIronPhysiciansPilgrimage Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."” IfsShouldChildrenSaidEarthMotherDiesAsksSoundDecisionPiecesAuthorityHotFingersAsk MeShould IPalmsObeyingOraclesThings Fall Apart OkonkwoYamsOkonkwo Author:Chinua Achebe
“If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.” IfsSaidLandFingersOilPunishmentGoddessOffenseWrathEldersOffendersClans Book:Things Fall Apart Source: Things Fall Apart
“Mayor de Blasio said that whenever he goes to a Yankee game he gets sick and tired of people booing and giving him the finger. Hey, what do you want? You're the mayor of New York City. It comes with the gig, pal.” PeopleWantGivingSaidGamesCitiesNew YorkSickTiredFingersHeyNew York CityYankeesGigsMayorsPalsBooing Author:David Letterman
“But if they did really refer to some kind of a "personal relationship," it would in effect be a case of channeling. I suspect this is why fundamentalists who condemn New Age channelers do not dismiss it as a fraud..., but instead think that Ramtha and the others are channeling demons. If they said it was sheer delusion, they know where the other four fingers would wind up pointing!” IfsThinkingKnowsKindSaidAgeCasesFourAtheismEffectsWindFingersPositive AtheismDemonDelusionSuspectsFraudSheerThey SaidNew AgePointingChannelingPersonal Relationships Author:Robert M. Price