Single Zinc Finger

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or finger:

“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

“This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry’s got a finger in it.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)