Quotes about Thumb

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. Votes: 4

The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun. Votes: 3

I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. Votes: 3

Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious. Votes: 3

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing. Votes: 2

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. Votes: 2

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. Votes: 2

I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate. Votes: 2

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. Votes: 2

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish. Votes: 2

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love. Votes: 2

On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger. Votes: 2

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. Votes: 2

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb! Votes: 2

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! Votes: 2

The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable. Votes: 2

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing. Votes: 2

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about similar levels of discomfort in animals seems to be a case of mistaken moral priorities. Votes: 2

I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood. Votes: 2

There are two competing philosophies in 'Wool': one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out. Votes: 2

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. Votes: 2

For most part, the rule of thumb is pretty much you're going to race guys hard the last quarter of the race and for sure the last run of the day. You're still going to give and take until that last pit stop. Votes: 2

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings. Votes: 2

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out. Votes: 2

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people. Votes: 2

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy. Votes: 2

I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become. Votes: 2

Every honest miller has a golden thumb. Votes: 0

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? Votes: 0

Too much under the thumb of the Iranians. Votes: 0

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb. Votes: 0

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb. Votes: 0

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power. Votes: 0

A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters. Votes: 0

Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements. Votes: 0

I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB. Votes: 0

If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb. Votes: 0

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy. Votes: 0

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. Votes: 0

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb. Votes: 0

Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream! Votes: 0

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb. Votes: 0

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that. Votes: 0

My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider. Votes: 0

If I fell into a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb Votes: 0

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.... Votes: 0

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence. Votes: 0

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa. Votes: 0

Jesus will press his thumb against the cheek of humanity and wipe away all tears. Votes: 0

I don't see anything wrong in sticking your thumb into a guy's eye. Just a little. Votes: 0

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion. Votes: 0

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds. Votes: 0

No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb. Votes: 0

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't. Votes: 0

As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true. Votes: 0

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times. Votes: 0

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams. Votes: 0

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging Votes: 0

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb. Votes: 0

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person's thumb are two different things. Votes: 0

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself. Votes: 0

If you want to be rich the rule of thumb is to teach others how to be rich. Votes: 0

You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species. Votes: 0

I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer. Votes: 0

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. Votes: 0

Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...? Votes: 0

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well. Votes: 0

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. Votes: 0

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it. Votes: 0

There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote. Votes: 0

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan. Votes: 0

Ive always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it. Votes: 0

The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools. Votes: 0

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches. Votes: 0

O sweet spontaneous earth how often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty thou answereth them only with spring. Votes: 0

You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb. Votes: 0

Galen cupped her cheek with his uninjured hand, his thumb caressing the rise of satin-covered bone. She trembled, but didn't pull away. Votes: 0

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run. Votes: 0

I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe. Votes: 0

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs. Votes: 0

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was. Votes: 0

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product. Votes: 0

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. Votes: 0

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment. Votes: 0

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. Votes: 0

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye. Votes: 0

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think. Votes: 0

I'm a fucking coward.Maybe. Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. There's a hero. Tell me who's better off. Votes: 0

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France. Votes: 0

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. Votes: 0

As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser. Votes: 0

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers? Votes: 0

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye. Votes: 0

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry. Votes: 0

I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

I really want to hit him, she said.Bloodthirsty, he murmured, taking her hand, running his thumb over the pulse racing at her wristI like it. Votes: 0

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling. Votes: 0

You should have worn a baby pink t-shirt on which a child sucks his thumb. That would have given you the required juvenile look. ~ Subhangi Tyagi Votes: 0

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance. Votes: 0

You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Tralec inserted his thumb into her womanhood and began to massage her clit with his middle finger, encircling it slowly and gradually increasing the pressure and speed." Votes: 0

Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you. Votes: 0

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws... Votes: 0

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error. Votes: 0

Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed. Votes: 0

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read. Votes: 0

I call my thumb Napoleon, because I rarely ever lose a thumb war. Also because my thumb's so small, and I wear a tiny funny hat and cape on it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think that it should just be a rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair... that means that it's time to quit that job. Votes: 0

I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator. Votes: 0

Thomas hooked a thumb at Butters. "Check out Dr. Marcus Welby, MD, here.""I'd have gone with Doogie Howser, maybe," I said."Split the difference at McCoy?" Thomas asked?"Perfect. Votes: 0

I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing. Votes: 0

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb. Votes: 0

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security. Votes: 0

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power. Votes: 0

With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb May look wrinkled and wet And withered, and white as the snow, But the taste of a thumb Is the sweetest taste yet (As only we thumb-sucker's know). Votes: 0

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation. Votes: 0

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 you strike your thumb with a hammer?) Votes: 0

I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me. Votes: 0

John Boehner - doesn't he look like every guy you've ever seen at a hotel bar? He looks like the kind of guy who licks his thumb when he counts his money. Votes: 0

A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power. Votes: 0

The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb. Votes: 0

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.' Votes: 0

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters. Votes: 0

Divorced?''Separated.'He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' (Novelty) Votes: 0

There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. Votes: 0

pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring, and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark.... Votes: 0

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe. Votes: 0

There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb...suggests one day...for every kilometer run in anger. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe. Votes: 0

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states. Votes: 0

... as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal WE, put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head. Votes: 0

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family. Votes: 0