“On the other hand, you have different fingers.”

“Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together.”

Karen Traviss British science fiction author

“You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

“But the real truth is that there never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.”

Harold Pinter (1930–2008) playwright from England

“You know," Elijah raised a hand to shake a finger at her, "you have an attitude problem."
"I certainly do. Your attitude is a huge problem for me.”

Jacquelyn Frank (1968) writer

“The finger cut, to save the hand.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

“He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe. You are.’ His holding fingers are holding hers.

‘Me? Me?”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

“You put your hand on Corinne's back like this again and I'm breaking your fingers.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

“Don't shake the hand of reality with one finger.”

Eli Siegel (1902–1978) Latvian-American poet, philosopher

“At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner