These fingers quotes will inspire you. Fingers each of the four slender jointed parts attached to either hand (or five, if the thumb is included).
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging fingers quotes, fingers sayings, and fingers proverbs.
Famous Fingers Quotes
- “There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.” ~ Charles Morgan
- “Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ’em all together, I guess.” ~ Elvis Presley
- “Learn to listen with your fingers.” ~ Helen B. Taussig
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“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.” ~ Louis Nizer
- “There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.” ~ Diogenes
- “My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.” ~ Bette Davis
- “It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.” ~ Julia Child
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“Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Prejudice: Sometimes it’s like a hair across your cheek. You can’t see it, you can’t find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.” ~ Marian Anderson
- “A ring is a halo on your finger.” ~ Douglas Coupland
- “The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.” ~ James Cash Penney
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“The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.” ~ Marc Chagall
- “On the other hand, you have different fingers.” ~ Steven Wright
- “White-collar conservative flashin’ down the street,
Pointing that plastic finger at me,
Hoping soon my kind will drop and die,
But I’m gonna wave my freak flag high.” ~ Jimi Hendrix - “When things go bad, it’s easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We’ve all been afraid to fail before a game, but it shouldn’t stop us from continuing, and from doing what we have to do to get the job done.” ~ John Elway , Pointing fingers quotes
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“Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can’t put their finger on me.” ~ Lenny Kravitz
- “The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.” ~ Charles Reznikoff
- “The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.” ~ Jane Harman
- “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen
- “My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.” ~ Graham Greene
- “The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on.” ~ Omar Khayyam
- “Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
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“The tires were scorching hot, in fact, I burned my fingers on one.” ~ Malcolm Campbell
- “His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger or the lightest breath of wind.” ~ Anne Bronte
- “If I didn’t have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.” ~ Nikki Cox
- “But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue forever, and never have an end.” ~ John Jewel
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“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.” ~ Roland Barthes
- “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.” ~ Morton Hunt
- “Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on anyone he wanted to worry about.” ~ Joseph Heller
- “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.” ~ John Steinbeck
- “It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s finger.” ~ Andy Warhol
- “If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.” ~ William C. Bryant
- “And it’s not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.” ~ Justin Guarini
- “God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.” ~ Brian Eno
- “A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That’s how I want you to play.” ~ Mike Krzyzewski
- “I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.” ~ Todd Barry
- “There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.” ~ Jo Bonner
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“First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn’t stop at the end of your fingers, because you’re dancing bigger than that; you’re dancing spirit.” ~ Judith Jamison
- “I loved being outside. We’d hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.” ~ Loretta Lynn
- “There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can’t just point the finger at America” ~ Arlo Guthrie
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“How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.” ~ Gary Oldman
- “When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn’t go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.” ~ Les Paul
- “Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” ~ Helen Keller
- “God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?” ~ Ninette de Valois
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“While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.” ~ Ken Mehlman
- “I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn’t be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.” ~ Myles Horton
- “God’s finger touched him, and he slept.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.” ~ William Ralph Inge
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“I don’t look at a knife the way I used to. I’m more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It’s in every chord.” ~ Neil Young
- “If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn’t type any slower.” ~ Mitch Hedberg
- “Clean your finger before you point at my spots.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.” ~ Lech Walesa
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“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.” ~ Adam Smith
- “A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.” ~ Suzi Quatro
- “It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.” ~ David Hume
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“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.” ~ Dorothy Parker
- “January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.” ~ Sara Coleridge
- “I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that’s really cool. You know, you’re moving. You’re using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.” ~ Bill Kreutzmann
Finger is one of the five divisions of the end of the hand including the thumb.
