But hey, man, if I summited K2 in winter, without oxygen, frost-nipped fingers are a small price to pay. It was worth it. Think about it, things could have been a lot worse.
In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you’re not supposed to be sexual, you don’t plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
If you play the guitar, you’ve got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you’re limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.
I’ve watched so-called ‘New Order’ playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along to my bass on tape… He’s got his fingers on the low, and you can hear my high bass in the background. So he’s miming.
I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?
We’re not just up here keeping our fingers crossed hoping that things turn out how they should. That’s not how life works. If you want something, then you’ve got to believe it and you’ve got to feel it in your heart. But you got to work for it.
My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.
I can bend my wrist down to my forearm. I can wrench my fingers backward until they rest on my hand. A hitchhiker’s thumb might arc into a 90-degree angle; mine will go to 135.
Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.
If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you’re typing faster than your mind is working.
I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.
Going to America is the best prize, so fingers crossed it will work out on Broadway.
I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day – the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills – have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks.
I often eat cakes while my fingers are caked in soil.
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.
My fingers are crossed for ‘Dekh Lena.’ I believe it has shaped very beautifully and also visually the song looks fabulous.
A friend of mine once told me that I can’t screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples’ songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people’s music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.
The nature of filmmaking is that there are so many people involved in it, so many fingers in the pie, that part of the talent of a director is to try and get your personality through in the movie.
There’s a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there’s absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It’s maddening! It’s fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it’s something that’s a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‘I’d like to write about that.’ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
I think there’s not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.
This is going to sound really crude, but I lost my fingers in a meat grinder.
Before the operation on my left hand I wasn’t able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I’ve never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn’t any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.
My son now is 22 months old, he’s been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He’s been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he’s been on the drums. He’s got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.
I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I’m in touch with the deepest emotions within. It took me a while to learn that whatever I feel like doing is the right thing. If I want to play an invisible instrument, I will.
Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I’m hooked up differently.
We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
In real life, being a new mom, I would like to be able to sleep. I’d like to snap my fingers and be asleep because I’m a little sleep-deprived, at the moment.
Everything Paul Kossoff did came from his fingers and went right into the amp. He was his own effects unit.
What I’ve done from the very beginning is play everything with extreme accuracy. I never said to myself, ‘Okay, if I put my fingers this way, it’s gonna result in this.’ I’ve never taken a lesson. My way of playing the guitar was a fresh approach to the instrument.
Every climb is different. The Dawn Wall was so dry and aggressive that my fingers would dry out to the point where they would crack. So I actually had to add as much moisture as possible.
We didn’t have practical model rockets in the ’50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn’t have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.
Film is the toughest one for me, as there are many fingers in the pot, so it can be disappointing. However, to have your work seen on such a large scale, that’s a very exciting prospect.
I loved being outside. We’d hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn’t permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.
I’ve never been one to learn scales and do exercises. Maybe I’m lazy, but I just don’t take to that kind of thing. Learning other people’s songs is enjoyable, and my fingers tend to go to new places because I’m not playing my music, the stuff that comes naturally to me.
In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.
I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.
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.
I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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.
I’m used to working with a rehearsal process and your body. It’s a different thing to just be a voice. It’s liberating, on one hand, because you get to show up in sweatpants and with Doritos on your fingers, but on the other hand, it’s limiting because it’s just your voice.
I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!
When I’m in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.
You don’t want to be a one-trick pony. On a lot of Smiths songs, I used a pick or a plectrum, and for some of the slow songs, I used my thumbs and my fingers. That’s why I love the bass – it’s adaptable, and you can express yourself so well with it.
In ‘Futurama,’ the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.
Too often, it’s the Washington way to hide, point fingers, and try to place blame on someone else.
Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.
My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a ‘fingermill’ – a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with, so it was more gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue.
I don’t want to have that one year too much, where people actually, behind my back, start smiling at me and pointing fingers at me and go, ‘Ah, look, that’s Jensie. No, he’s not good anymore.’
