Thumbs Quotes

315 quotes by 277 authors

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs. — Dave Barry
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to… — Edward Abbey
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since… — Alfred Adler
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people… — Gabriel Byrne
I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking… — Nicolas Cage
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten… — Julia Cameron
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing. — Marc Chagall
I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food. — Robert Orben
Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his… — Sylvia Plath
No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why… — Bobby Jones
As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true. — Craig Murray
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with… — Henry Mitchell
You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb. — Steven Wilson
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. — Robert Breault
If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are… — Bruce Schneier
A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them… — Carlos Castaneda
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize… — Albert Einstein
If you want to be rich the rule of thumb is to teach others how to be rich. — Robert Kiyosaki

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