Fingernails Quotes - Page 3

• I've put my friends and family through the wringer over the years, I have to say, by doing unspeakable things to people, not the least of which was pulling out poor George Clooney's fingernails in Syriana.

  Mark Strong

  Years, People, Family And Friends

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Me siento afortunado de que me hayan grabado muchas canciones otras personas, porque me tomo muy en serio lo que escribo. Sólo las personas que me han seguido a lo largo de los años y conocen de verdad mi trabajo saben lo en serio que me tomo todo, incluido mi aspecto. No puedes quitarme mis tacones altos, no puedes quitarme mis uñas largas, no puedes quitarme todo este pelo, porque forma parte de esta cosa en la que me he convertido. No me gustaría renunciar a nada de eso. ¿Tengo que ser fea para ser compositora? Así es como soy, y es lo que elijo ser.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Song, Hair

  "You need to shine if you're going to be a star" by Paul Sexton, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2006.

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• Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

  Federico García Lorca

  Firsts, May, Rich

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• One of my modeling bookers told me that the most important thing is to try to be vigilant about taking care of yourself. Get sleep, don't be afraid to trim your hair even if you're trying to grow it out, don't bite your fingernails, and stay in shape. A lot of it is in the little things.

  Julia Jones

  Sleep, Hair, Important

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• The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cutting, Men, Voice

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• I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, School, Leather Jackets

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• I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Stars, Garden, Thinking

  Interview with James Ellis, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

  Bill Mollison

  Dirty, People, Earth

  "Permacultura: A Designers' Manual". Libro de Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  James Joyce

  God, Art, Imagination

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

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• There are an awful lot of things in the cut of street drugs that eventually make you sick. I reached a point where the skin around the edges of my fingernails used to hurt all the time. And it would peel away easily. Now, that must have been from some poison in the cut.

  George Carlin

  Hurt, Cutting, Sick

  Fuente: reprints.longform.org

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• These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.

  Stephen King

  Country, Hate, Heart

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• If you meet a cross-eyed person
  you must plunge into the grass,
  alongside the chilly ants,
  fish through the green fingernails
  and come up with the four-leaf clover.

  Anne Sexton

  Magic, Four, Green

  Anne Sexton (1975). "El horrible remo hacia Dios", Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.

  Glen Duncan

  Emotional, Hair, Two

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• There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Environmental, Body, Action

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm not biting my fingernails.
  I'm biting my knuckles.
  I finished the fingernails months ago.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Knuckles, Biting, Months

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• Los datos apuntan a un crecimiento muy fuerte en el cuarto trimestre. El punto de vista pesimista, que en los últimos meses ha visto cómo su control de la realidad se deslizaba hasta el último nudillo, se agarra ahora con las uñas.

  Brian Wesbury

  Fuerte, Pasado, Realidad

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• The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.

  Buda Gautama

  Numbers, Honor, Dew

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• My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)

  Rachel Held Evans

  Thinking, Hands, Belief

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• Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.

  Mario Puzo

  Girl, Thinking, Sight

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.62, Penguin

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• But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They called you Sis. All your life people called you Sis, because that was what you were, or what you became - big sister, helpful sister, the one upon whom everyone depended, the one they all came to for everything from help with homework to a sliver under the fingernail.

  Wallace Stegner

  Responsibility, Sisterhood, People

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). "Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West", Random House Value Pub

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• I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

  Milan Kundera

  Dirty, Wine, People

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• Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.” I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” There was another pause. . . “That is the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard you say,” Bran said. “Be careful, Adam, or you’ll turn her into a real girl.” Adam looked at me. “I like her just the way she is, Bran.” And he meant it, greasy overalls, broken fingernails, and all.

  Patricia Briggs

  Girl, Real, Hero

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.75, Penguin

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• There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn't have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails until I was a bleeding wreck. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Girl, Half, Whispering

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.9, Penguin

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• if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.

  Jodi Picoult

  Corazón, Pensar, Dos

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.

  David Wong

  Fighting, Dark, Giving

  David Wong (2009). “John Dies at the End”, p.130, Macmillan

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