Thumbs famous quotes

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
-- Adam Arkin

#Giving #Roles #Thumbs

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.
-- Amy Lee

#Gone #Thumbs #Way

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
-- Andrew Tobias

#Running #Thumbs #Pitching

Ive always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.
-- Antony Starr

#Fun #Having Fun #Thumbs

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
-- Arthur Baer

#Thumbs #Littles #Faces

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Thumbs #Skeptical

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

#Different #Thumbs #Thumbprints

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

#Thumbs #Cases #Worst

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

#Country #Anomalies #Thumbs

As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.
-- Craig Murray

#War #Government #Thumbs

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

#Balance #Novelists #Thumbs

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.
-- David Lynch

#Vices #Thumbs #Vice Versa

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

#Decision #Thumbs #Roger

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

#Domestic Violence #Thumbs #Able

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
-- Elia Kazan

#Thinking #Collaboration #Thumbs

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

#Giving #Thumbs #Ruth

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.
-- Faith Hunter

#Luck #Hunters #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.
-- Gabriel Byrne

#Character #People #Thumbs

Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!
-- Garth Stein

#Dog #Giving #Thumbs

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

#Dog #Narrators #Thumbs

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

#Hands #Thumbs #Bones

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer

#Gold #Thumbs #Golden

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

#Mother #Childhood #Thumbs

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

#Kids #Thumbs #Ugly

If I fell into a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb
-- Ian Holloway

#Thumbs #Barrels

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
-- Isaac Newton

#Thumbs #Absence #Proof

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

#Eye #Air #Thumbs

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

#Hands #Way #Thumbs

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

#People #Thumbs #Green

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

#Finals #Movement #Thumbs

No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.
-- John Dear

#Moon #Thumbs #World

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.
-- John Gardner

#Jesus #Thumbs

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
-- John Podhoretz

#Thumbs #Losing #Very Good

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
-- John W. Gardner

#Happiness #Use #Thumbs

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.
-- Jon Meacham

#War #President #Thumbs

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.
-- Josephine Tey

#Noses #Thumbs #Want

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.
-- Kristin Armstrong

#Sweet #Thumbs #Keyboards

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.
-- Laurie Helgoe

#Feelings #Thumbs #Environment

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.
-- Lawrence Summers

#Thinking #Thumbs #Faster

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off.
-- Lee Haney

#Bodybuilding #Done #Thumbs

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.
-- Lewis Thomas

#Growing Up #Thumbs #Use

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
-- Marc Chagall

#Knowing #Thumbs #Born

Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.
-- Marci Shimoff

#Jobs #Love Is #Thumbs

Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.
-- Marion Dane Bauer

#Animal #Thumbs #Tools

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.
-- Michael Sheen

#Thumbs #Want

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.
-- Mortimer Collins

#Men #Hair #Thumbs

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
-- Nancy Banks-Smith

#Hands #Forever #Thumbs

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Evil #Thumbs #Scales

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
-- Neil Armstrong

#Thumbs #Earth #Planets

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Space #Today #Thumbs

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
-- Otto von Bismarck

#Power #Purses #Thumbs

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
-- Rachael Ray

#Memories #Thumbs #Cape Cod

I have had my share of twiddling my thumbs while sitting idle at home
-- Ranvir Shorey

#Home #Thumbs #Sitting

A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.
-- Richard Thaler

#Risk #Matter #Thumbs

I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
-- Robert Orben

#Mom #Baby #Thumbs

his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies
-- Samantha Shannon

#Fire #Thumbs #Poppies

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging
-- Seamus Heaney

#Gun #Thumbs #Digging

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
-- Solomon

#God #Thumbs #Bowing Down

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
-- Steven Pressfield

#Soul #Important #Thumbs

You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.
-- Steven Wilson

#Time #Thumbs #May

It's never been my desire to conquer you, Amelia. If you leave this room with me, it must be at my side. As my wife, my lover, my partner ...” His thumb brushed her lip. “My dearest friend.
-- Tessa Dare

#Wife #Desire #Thumbs

Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.
-- Tom Lehrer

#Thumbs #Use #Counting

One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters
-- Walter Isaacson

#Air #Thumbs #Pressure

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
-- Wilbur Smith

#Failure #Thumbs #Crowds

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.
-- Wolf Blitzer

#Thumbs #Wells #Intrigued

Who's got two thumbs, speaks limited French and hasn't cried once today? This moi.
-- LIZ

#Rocks #Two #Thumbs

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.
-- Mary Mattingly

#Thumbs #Photograph #Form

I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but.
-- Molly Crabapple

#Cutting #Thumbs

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

#Thumbs #Cases #Worst

My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider.
-- David Naylor

#Spiders #Thumbs #Site

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.
-- Rich Burlew

#Finding Yourself #Thumbs #Garbage

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.
-- Robert H. Frank

#Economic Models #Example #Thumbs

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.
-- Sharon Van Etten

#Sweaters #Thumbs #Cozy

If I'm not busy I start twiddling my thumbs.
-- John Newman

#Thumbs #Busy #Ifs