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I'm prejudiced but I think no one can do this as well as Curtis Hanson can. I think he has his finger on the pulse of America and on people - not just America, on the world - and what people want to see or need or whatever. He went into those...

Quote by Kim Basinger about people, need, world

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about time

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Quote by Bette Davis about purpose

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.

Quote by James Joyce about creation, existence, artists, god

A 500 pound patient needs all care, while your 80 pound patient needs a finger dressing and your colleague has a bad back.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine, bad luck, bad

Placing a gun back in a shoulder holster with your finger on the trigger will cause you to walk with a limp.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police

Any alternate fingerings taught will be promptly forgotten.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

String players will not have a pencil the day the conductor gives new bowings or fingerings.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about day

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

Quote by James Cash Penney

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about thinking, writing

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Quote by Adam Smith about good luck, happiness

Time flows by, and has passed like rivers Since that hallowed moment we first saw each other, Yet I'll never forget the love we had together, You miracle, with large eyes and cold fingers.

Quote by Mihai Eminescu about time, miracle, eyes, moment, love

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about knowledge

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Quote by Mel Brooks about humor, tragedy, comedy, fall

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

Quote by Hans Christian Andersen about life, fairy tales, god, man

My anxiety poem I write a poem today it will die tomorrow. It rises on its shivering feet of words it catches my attention and pulse as a living creature in another century - higher, unborn - and rises up, upper and upper, from...

Quote by Olimpiu Nusfelean about poetry, silence, attention, common sense, sense

Suddenly you seemed to understand everything, absolutely everything, and in the same time you do not understand anything, you lose everything, a truth in whose power you believed in it is slipping away through your fingers. RighWords Translation

Quote by Sorin Vidan about confusion, power, truth, time