Thumb Quotes

253 Thumb quotes by 210 unique authors

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what… — Ricky Gervais
Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron… — Celia Rees
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged… — Lewis H. Lapham
I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB. — Thom Yorke
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t… — Bel Kaufman
My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well. — Wolf Blitzer
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. — Solomon
In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and… — Basil King
There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb...suggests… — Hal Higdon
My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy… — Lily Tomlin
Some Native people suggest that one should test how cold the hands are by touching the thumb to the little finger of the same hand.… — Mors Kochanski
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy… — E E Cummings
The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the… — Edward T Welch
The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range… — Patrick F. McManus
Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves… — Robert Penn Warren
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

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