Quotes and Sayings About Thumbs
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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 -
The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.
-- Amy Lee -
Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
-- Andrew Tobias -
Ive always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.
-- Antony Starr -
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
-- Arthur Baer -
Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.
-- Ben Casnocha -
If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.
-- Bruce Schneier -
You’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 seen.
-- Cliff Asness -
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.
-- Cornelia Parker -
As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.
-- Craig Murray -
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.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.
-- David Lynch -
Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.
-- Eddie Murphy -
The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.
-- Edward T Welch -
I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
-- Elia Kazan -
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 the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go.
-- Elizabeth Berg -
Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.
-- Faith Hunter -
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.
-- Gabriel Byrne -
Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!
-- Garth Stein -
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.
-- Garth Stein -
Galen cupped her cheek with his uninjured hand, his thumb caressing the rise of satin-covered bone. She trembled, but didn’t pull away.
-- Gena Showalter -
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 production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
-- Gunter Grass -
Life was tough for me. When I was a kid, nobody played with me because they thought I looked ugly with my extra thumb. It pained me. So once I thought of getting it surgically removed. But I didn't. Slowly, I realized that the exterior is not the criterion for love and success.
-- Hrithik Roshan -
If I fell into a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb
-- Ian Holloway -
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
-- Isaac Newton -
Crumb,†he said. “What?†A slight grin appeared on his face and then he reached out, without the napkin, and before I knew what he was doing, he smoothed his thumb over my bottom lip. Every single muscle in my body locked up and became painfully tense. My eyes widened and the air caught in my throat. The touch was slight, barely anything, but I felt it in several parts of my body. “Got it.†His grin spread.
-- J. Lynn -
What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
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, the bushes, and really cultivate.
-- Jeffrey Donovan -
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethoven’s last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will somehow enable you to deliver the Gettysburg Address.
-- Jeremy Denk
