Thumbs Quotes

315 quotes by 277 authors

Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do… — Marci Shimoff
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving… — Alexander Pope
Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I… — Anne Heche
Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough.… — Rolf Jacobsen
A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen… — Lawrence Summers
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each… — Oscar Wilde
I think when you run by someone and there's a thumbs up or encouragement, that's something that I really love. It's a brotherhood, a support… — Gene Baur
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is… — Jane Birkin
Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that.… — Mark Twain
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Youâ€™ve got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever… — Cliff Asness
Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the… — Michael Berryman
He who has his thumb on the purse has the power. — Otto von Bismarck
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater… — Gunter Grass
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side… — Laura Mennell
More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds… — Marvin Olasky
A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when… — Bill Bryson
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs. — Arthur Baer
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. — Diane Lane

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