Thumbs Up Quotes - Page 2

• Women are much more discriminating. I think both types of people are equally interested in having an attractive partner. But women essentially give the thumbs up to only half as many guys as guys giving the thumbs up to women.

  Christian Rudder

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.

  Tony Parsons

  Mother, Father, Giving

  "When is the right time to have a baby?", www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2010.

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• Independent film making is very collaborative. You feel like it's you, the director and other actors and you really feel like you have the final say. When you do the bigger films, the studio has to give the final thumbs up and they're usually not big on risk taking because they're trying to make money.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Independent, Giving, Risk

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• They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished?...all this discussion of consciousness and whether animals have it is just a smokescreen. At bottom we protect our own kind. Thumbs up to human babies, thumbs down to veal calves.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Baby, Animal, Thumbs Down

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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

  Giving, Roles, Imagine

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