#finger

Vasco bought a bottle of vodka to celebrate and they drank it in the old sailors' graveyard in Mangrove South. This was where the funeral business had first put down its roots. Over the wall, between two warehouses, Jed could just make out the Witch's Fingers, four long talons of sand that lay in the mouth of the river. Rumour had it that, on stormy nights a century ago, they used to reach out, gouge holes in passing ships, and drag them down. Hundreds of wrecks lay buried in that glistening silt. The city's black heart had beaten strongly even then. There was one funeral director, supposedly, who used to put lamps out on the Fingers and lure ships to their doom. ↗

— Rupert Thomson

#doomeded #lamps #ship #witch-s-fingers #wrecks

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

#appear #being #chest #crop #dynamic

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it. - Logen Ninefingers ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#logen-ninefingers #law

Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow; that I couldn’t allow if I wanted to survive. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#adult #child #connection #fingers #ghost

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#finger #grain #head #her #i

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

— Mel Brooks

#comedy #cut #die #fall #finger

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. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#ever #fingers #first #first time #grew

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. ↗

— Edward Burns

#blue #creatures #crossed #director #effects

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

— Bette Davis

#considered #drive #fingers #fist #gathered

To play Hillary Clinton? I'm kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there. ↗

— Hope Davis

#clinton #could #course #fingertips #given