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Fingers Quotes - Page 4

I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.

I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.

"Interview with R.C. Sproul on His Latest Book – Part 2". Interview with Alex Chediak, alexchediak.com. January 19, 2010.

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.

William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.100, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.

"Fictional character: Rocky Balboa". "Rocky Balboa", www.imdb.com. 2006.

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!

"Fictional character: Captain Rex Kramer". "Airplane!", www.imdb.com. 1980.

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

Ken Auletta (2011). “Hard Feelings: Reporting on the Pols, the Press, the People and the City”, p.413, Random House

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin