The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.
When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.
There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm.
I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
It's always hard to put your finger on what it is that makes Primus Primus.
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.