Quotes of: Pointing-fingers Keyword

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

I didn't want to spoil the mood. This was probably the longest Daemon and I had ever spoken without some statement earning him the finger.

Obsidian

Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger. It's amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body.

A Little Yellow Dog

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

To the Lighthouse

The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.

The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin.

Last Sacrifice

Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.

The Sun Also Rises

Apollo?” I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.” A god named Fred?

The Titan's Curse

Ken steepled his fingers and gazed thoughtfully up at the ceiling. 'Dwarves have done very well for us in primetime.

Reality Boulevard

A slow smile spread across his lips, and he threaded his fingers through mine. "I can see why I like you.

Tremble

If I had four fingers growing out of my forehead, I wouldn't try to play the piano with my nose.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I want instant coffee at the snap of my fingers that gives me more energy than that generated by a million snaps.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

In complete silence you can’t hear a thing. Just ask a deaf person—but ask them with your fingers.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

He flexed his fingers and fought the urge to put his hand on her stomach. It was a possessive gesture, and he felt a little bit possessive

Unexpected

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

V for Vendetta

And what sort of choice is fall in love with me, or you’re a pig?” “Justice.” Lizzie twirled a lock of hair around her little finger.

Witches Monstrous

He was protecting me with just the tips of his fingers, like five miniature copies of his heart touching my skin.

Without Me

The middle finger is a great body language tool for letting people know you’re upset. Poetry isn’t quite as effective in a fit of road rage.

Xazaqazax

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

Dweezil Zappa

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

George Eliot

I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.

Octavia E. Butler