Quotes of: Pointing-fingers Keyword

My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented well at all on the stage, in the media, etc. So on those few occasions when something comes along, ev...

David Henry Hwang

My father always used to tell one of his dreams, because it somehow seemed of a piece with what was to follow. He believed that it was a consequence of the thing's presence in the next room. My father dreamed of blood. It was the vividness of the dre...

Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome

Perseus Jackson, I do expect you to refrain from causing any more trouble. " "Trouble?" I demanded. Dionysus snapped his fingers. A newspaper appeared on the table-the front page of today's New York Post, There was my yearbook picture from Meriwether...

The Sea of Monsters

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story - of course that is how we all live, it's the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It's like reading a book with...

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

I never saw "being different" in and of itself as the point to "being Goth" -- dressing different from most others, maybe, but the point to me was to get together with people who liked the same music and clothes, or at least very similar music and cl...

Ruadhán J. McElroy

Stacey, American Dreamgirl: [points to beer bottle] What do you call that? Colin: Uh, Bottle. Stacey, American Dreamgirl, Jeannie, American Angel, Carol-Anne, American Goddess: [giggling, mimicking accent] BOHT-el! Jeannie, American Angel: [points ...

Love Actually

Dean Vernon Wormer: Here are your grade point avarages. Mr. Kroger: two C's, two D's and an F. That's a 1.2. Congratulations, Kroger. You're at the top of the Delta pledge class. Mr. Dorfman? Flounder: [drunk] Hello! Dean Vernon Wormer: 0.2... Fat, d...

Animal House

Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls. Quinn

Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

Company of Liars

The terror takes you. The cage is locked and the curtain drawn. Fingers dance along as blades, carving memories into your flesh that will leave scars long past being healed.

The Cliff

Where is my oasis? Too far from here for me to crawl with these dead legs, refusing to co-operate Hands and fingers clawing uselessly through the grains of sand...

Chaos of the Mind

He looked down at my fingers wrapped around his coat then lifted his eyes to mine. 'My tiny huntress, do you know what you've done to me?

Camille

TIME Time And how it slips through my fingers Without putting its ring on them, And I remain simply its lover

The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.

Clockwork Princess

When I want to.” He ran his finger over her lips. “You don’t get a vote, honey.

Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Nights

The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.

Darkness at Noon

What do you want to be then ?" He crooks a finger under my chin,aiming those mysterious slate blue eyes into mine."Unforgettable.

Down the Shore

… Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool.

The Dogs of War

She was extending a hand I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

She remembered her fingers threaded through his hair and his kisses in places that made her long for him years later.

Eight Girls Taking Pictures

When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger; invisible hands draw back the curtains, a pallid finger writes forgotten words on dust of the piano...

The Fourth Dimension