Top 401 Thumb Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

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

I could put my thumb up to a window and completely hide the Earth. I thought, 'Everything I've ever known is behind my thumb.'

Talent sticks out like a sore thumb.

There is no way to keep your thumb on the pulse unless you have your thumb on the pulse, and I think we have it.

At first I didn't realize that I had fractured my thumb amidst the momentum of batting.

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

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

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

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

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

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

From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it out with your thumb. Then you realize that on that spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you — all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it right there on that little spot that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that you’ve changed forever, that there is something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was.

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

You can't pick up a golf club if your thumb hurts.

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

It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds such magic, I can scarcely breath. He pulls his hand away fast, aware of what he's done. But his touch lingers.

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

You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species.

I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

There's probably as many rules of thumb to wrestling as anything in the world, and then there's just as many exceptions to every one of those rules because somebody doesn't fit that thumb.

The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is too much said, as it seems to me, about importance of the thumb... The thumb must lightly touch the neck and follow the forefinger when moving in different positions, aiding the hand to shift up and down without clutching the instrument.

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

There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb...suggests one day...for every kilometer run in anger.

My hand landed on a rock, and the gnome landed on it, squashing my thumb between the rock and the gnome. Basically, it was crushed and took the end of my thumb off. I just looked at my hand, and the first thought that flashed into my mind was, 'How on earth am I going to make my devil horn sign now? That's my trademark!'

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.

The US no longer does decisions. It can neither stop the drug traffic nor legalize it. It can neither win wars nor abandon them, neither make money nor stop spending it, neither stop immigration nor assimilate the immigrants. Washington can beat its thumb with a hammer, yes, and notice that it hurts, but it can't stop beating its thumb. That would take a decision, and Washington doesn't do decisions.

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

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

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

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

The rule of thumb is, if you feel chest pains, chew on an aspirin to thin the blood rapidly.

If I'm super scared or sick, I'll still suck my thumb.

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

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

As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.

Here's the rule of thumb: When the entire family looks like the unibomber, they're against gay marriage.

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

My entire book was typed with three fingers and a very confident space-bar thumb.

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything youve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.

My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider.

I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

Something a lot of people don't know about me is I sucked my thumb until I was in like eighth grade. It's cause, when I was a baby, I sucked my thumb and I guess my mom and dad never weaned me off of that, because they thought it was cute. And then it's like an addiction. That's your security blanket.

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

If I fell into a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

The rule of thumb in F1 is to beat your teammate.

Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?

Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb May look wrinkled and wet And withered, and white as the snow, But the taste of a thumb Is the sweetest taste yet (As only we thumb-sucker's know).

We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.

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

Too much under the thumb of the Iranians.

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.