Your Thumb Quotes
29 quotes by 26 authors
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life…
— Henry David Thoreau
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No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.
— John Dear
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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
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If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find…
— Jessye Norman
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From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it…
— Rusty Schweickart
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O, blackberry tart, with berries as big as your thumb, purple and black, and thick with juice, and a crust to endear them that will…
— Richard Llewellyn
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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
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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
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Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
— Courtney Love
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is…
— Samuel R. Delany
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Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
— William Shakespeare
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Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or…
— Neil Gaiman
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Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people…
— John Green
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Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John
— Nicholas Sparks
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You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm…
— Elizabeth Berg
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Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream!
— Charles M. Schulz
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Can't you see me as king of the Hereford ranchers, Lucy?" "Oh, I can see you, all right... I can see you riding out on…
— Charles M. Schulz
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Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly…
— Terry Pratchett
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