Your Thumb Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

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
No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb. — John Dear
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream! — Charles M. Schulz
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
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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