A Quote by Margaret Atwood

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Canadian - Novelist
Born: November 18, 1939

And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

Joanna Newsom

Peter,” Ashley asked softly, “Do you know what that was?” “Of course,” Peter said, much affronted. “A thimble.” “No,” said Ashley, staring, “That was a kiss.” “Didn’t it strike you as a little different from other thimbles you’ve had in the past?” Peter looked shifty. “Well, yes.” “Ha!” “It was my first thimble with tongue.” Peter told her with dignity.

Sarah Rees Brennan

When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.

Warren Buffett

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Remy de Gourmont

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

Phyllis Bottome

That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!

Sid Waddell

E.C. Segar, who created 'Thimble Theatre' and 'Popeye,' is one of my favorite cartoonists.

Charles Forsman

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

Warren Buffett

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

Wilford Brimley

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

Herta Muller

An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive

Ramakrishna

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

Pablo Neruda

You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.

Carolyn Wells

To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

Eddie Izzard

President Obama, he's never going to debate me on guns. His knowledge on that issue wouldn't fill a thimble, and he knows it. I would clean his clock, and he knows it.

Wayne LaPierre

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