Quotes of: Thumb Keyword

As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.

Forced Mate

Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

Sam Kinison

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

Kenneth Fisher

I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I've texted so much, so I definitely text too much.

Miranda Cosgrove

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.

Famke Janssen

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

Jill Lepore

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!

Edward Abbey

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

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.

Laura Ingraham

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

Sarah Dessen

Here are five rules of thumb, should all your fingers on one hand turn into thumbs and you decide to rule them. 1. There is no day too dull, no problem too great that cannot be fixed with a couple of plays of 'rush rush' by Paula Abdul. 2. The amount...

Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies

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

Dear John

He ran his thumb over my lower lip, sending a flurry of sparks through me. "Good-bye, Sophie." -Cal

Demonglass

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

Beginner's Luke

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

Alfred Adler

Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

Ashton Kutcher

I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.

Sara Paxton

The taste of chalk. The sun lays its copper thumbs on my eyelids. The radio plays the monologue of a dog. What is the formula for tomorrow?

Hydrologos

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

The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Whenever I schedule an appointment, my general rule of thumb is, tomorrow is better than yesterday.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

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