Thumbs Quotes
315 quotes by 277 authors
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I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward…
— Jeremy Piven
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs.…
— Garth Stein
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There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look,…
— John Steinbeck
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The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is too much said, as it seems to…
— Leopold Auer
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Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down.…
— Sam Mendes
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
— Adam Arkin
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What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs,…
— Jeffrey Donovan
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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
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I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
— Tom Hooper
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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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
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It is Israel that must recognize Palestine's rights. We cannot believe in empty statements, twiddle our thumbs and watch our children getting killed. Israel must…
— Khaled Mashal
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Thumbs Quotes
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