#fingers

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#body #century #crowd #cuts #distributes

About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting. ↗

— Terry Kath

#fat #fingers #fretting #i #neck

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

#darkness #emptiness #fell #fingers #future

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

#countries #different #different countries #differently #divided

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

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

#desire #fingers #had #i #instead

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

— Kathleen Blanco

#fingers #hand #helping #helping hand #offering

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#basically #click #could #days #fingers

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#fingers #jazz #just #other #pick