#finger

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things. ↗

— Fay Wray

#considerate #down #every #every time #felt

I’ve fought in three campaigns,” he began. “In seven pitched battles. In countless raids and skirmishes and desperate defences, and bloody actions of every kind. I’ve fought in the driving snow, the blasting wind, the middle of the night. I’ve been fighting all my life, one enemy or another, one friend or another. I’ve known little else. I’ve seen men killed for a word, for a look, for nothing at all. A woman tried to stab me once for killing her husband, and I threw her down a well. And that’s far from the worst of it. Life used to be cheap as dirt to me. Cheaper. “I’ve fought ten single combats and I won them all, but I fought on the wrong side and for all the wrong reasons. I’ve been ruthless, and brutal, and a coward. I’ve stabbed men in the back, burned them, drowned them, crushed them with rocks, killed them asleep, unarmed, or running away. I’ve run away myself more than once. I’ve pissed myself with fear. I’ve begged for my life. I’ve been wounded, often, and badly, and screamed and cried like a baby whose mother took her tit away. I’ve no doubt the world would be a better place if I’d been killed years ago, but I haven’t been, and I don’t know why.” He looked down at his hands, pink and clean on the stone. “There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and there’s a lot of ’em. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. I’ve earned it. I’ve deserved it. I’ve sought it out. Such is my punishment. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#logen-ninefingers #life

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#even #fingers #go #go away #hit

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano. ↗

— Barbara Ann Scott

#discipline #edges #exercises #finger #just

A mafia don could snap his fingers and somebody would snap my neck. But when I snap my fingers, people start dancing. Or at least my clones would.
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— Jarod Kintz

#dancing #family #fingers #mafia #people

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#melody #music #piano #music

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#fingernails #go #hanging #largely #luck

Obviously, you check tht she's safe, she's clean, got all the fingers and toes, like that's going to help them through life. It'll help them walk, but you can't pull them out and check their IQ or anything. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#check #clean #fingers #going #got

My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#fingers #hand #helping #helping hand #offering

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#broke #english #fine #fingers #get