Thumbs Quotes
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, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.
Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.
I never taught him to break him thumb." "That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent." "Loser," Ronan agreed, and he was himself again.
I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I've texted so much, so I definitely text too much.
his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies
A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.
We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.
Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.
There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.
Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.
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. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.
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 someone wilder and woollier.
I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.
I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."
Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.
You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species.
Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.
...I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here." He poked his thumb over his shoulder. "It attracts a lot of attention sometimes.
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.
Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.
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 that you portray and the bad in the good.
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. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
Galen cupped her cheek with his uninjured hand, his thumb caressing the rise of satin-covered bone. She trembled, but didn’t pull away.
Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.
You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile
Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.
It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.
Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.
A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.
Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.
You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.
Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.
I saw a sneak preview of Jack Reacher and give two thumbs up to Tom Cruise. He did a great job with the role.
As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.
