Thumbs Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  John Scalzi

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  4 Copy quote

• I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part of who we are and is buried deep in all of us as a source of wisdom and strength and healing which we can draw upon or, with our terrible freedom, not draw upon as we choose. I think that among other things all real art comes from that deepest self - painting, writing music, dance, all of it that in some way nourishes the spirit.

  Frederick Buechner

  Art, Real, Believe

  4 Copy quote

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

  John Gardner

  Jesus, Ifs

  John Gardner, Stewart O'Nan (1994). “On writers and writing”, Addison-Wesley Longman

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Girl, Believe, Hands

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.73, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Rachael Ray

  Memories, Capes, Cape Cod

  4 Copy quote

• 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, Said

  4 Copy quote

• I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you." "I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too." His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me.

  Tessa Dare

  Hurt, Thinking, Promise

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.213, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to curl up into a fetal position and start sucking my thumb, let my tears and dripping saliva pool under me. Sorry. I tried living, tried being sentient. Can't do it. Can't live in the same universe with that.

  David Wong

  Sorry, Tears, Curls

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.289, Titan Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Donald A. Norman

  Clever, Thinking, Self

  4 Copy quote

• There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Children, Imagination

  4 Copy quote

• For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Fall, Taken, Cutting

  4 Copy quote

• I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but... ' more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thinking, Phrases, Should

  4 Copy quote

• 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, World

  4 Copy quote

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

  John Podhoretz

  Losing, Very Good, Begets

  "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  John Podhoretz

  Views, People, Intellectual

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Girl, Children, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Colin Hanks

  School, College, Guitar

  "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.

  Kristen Stewart

  Crazy, Luck, Plague

  "Comic-con: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner And Stephenie Meyer Talk The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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, Keyboards, Affection

  6 Copy quote

• 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.

  Julian Baggini

  Nice, Animal, Priorities

  "Be pragmatic, not obsessive" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Heath Ledger

  Thinking, Self, Doubt

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Food, Bodybuilding, Burning

  60 Copy quote

• 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.

  Nicolas Cage

  Reading, Men, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mouths, Seems, Ifs

  4 Copy quote

• 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, Way

  8 Copy quote