Thumb Quotes

253 quotes by 210 authors

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a… — Dennis Miller
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. — Isaac Newton
You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb. — Nancy Banks-Smith
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will… — Jeremy Denk
A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters. — Richard Thaler
No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb. — John Dear
Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to… — Steven Pressfield
I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our… — E. O. Wilson
We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the… — Jim Lovell
When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches. — Tim McCarver
If I fell into a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb — Ian Holloway
There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist… — Mortimer Collins
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no… — Patricia Ireland
I know that [Mike] Tyson talked about wanting to eat his opponent's children, but I don't think he ever had the balls to do it.… — Zach Braff
Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though their… — Frederick Soddy
One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows… — Walter Isaacson
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that. — Jamie Zawinski
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find… — Jessye Norman
Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb. — Ogden Nash
"No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First, no one else… — Guy Kawasaki

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