Thumbs Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um - they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

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

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

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

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

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

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.

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.

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

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.

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

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

Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

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

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

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.

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

There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once and for all. ... Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez faire.

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

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

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

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

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

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

Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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