Fingernails – Quotes

I told my wife

I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose. Emo Philips

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don’t have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I’m amazed it grows. Emilio Estevez

Just because he has

Just because he has black fingernails doesn’t mean he’s a monster-that’s how you’ve defended yourself for years. Ellen Schreiber

You have to have

You have to have short fingernails or they’d just break off, and you can’t wear red polish – it looks like your fingers are bleeding. Elizabeth Smart

To be a modern

To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the … Read more

Andy says, I don\’t

Andy says, I don’t understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails. Frank McCourt

Maybe i would become

Maybe i would become a mermaid… i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin … Read more

Damned, damned be the

Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!… I’m sure that they are going to Hell head-first. Federico Garcia Lorca

I feel fortunate that

I feel fortunate that I’ve had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It’s only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it – including the way I look. You can’t … Read more

My gripe is not

My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and … Read more