Thumb Quotes

253 quotes by 210 authors

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive… — Bob Dylan
I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. — Tom Hooper
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a… — Famke Janssen
Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I believe or challenge… — Michael L. Brown
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you… — Anna Quindlen
If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As… — Ernest Gaines
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that… — Eli Siegel
Every honest miller has a golden thumb. — Geoffrey Chaucer
There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always… — Cornelia Parker
Black folks in America are telling one party, 'We don't give a damn about you.' They're telling the other party, 'You've got our vote.' Therefore,… — Stephen A. Smith
I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe. — Walter Mischel
For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the… — Sloane Crosley
I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but... '… — Sloane Crosley
It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing… — Lee Haney
But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye. — Colin Hanks
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger. — David Hockney
There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil,… — Laura Ingraham
I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb. — Elia Kazan
It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing… — Heath Ledger

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