Thumb Quotes - page 3

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run. (Andrew Tobias)
A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
The moistened thumb of the expectant reader has not yet marked the soft tissues of this lean clean smiling volume. Spread me, and break me open, for pleasure. View quote
Peter Greenaway
Coming up: The part of my interview with the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, where she smacks me down like a ball-peen hammer meeting a thumb. Ow. Ow. Ow. View quote
Rachel Maddow
And all of this controversy circles me And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me So I point one back at 'em, but not the index or pinky or the ring or the thumb It's the one you put up when you don't give a fuck When you won't just put up with the bullshit they pull. View quote
Eminem
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? View quote
William Shakespeare
If I were compelled to state in a single sentence the most significant contribution of our movement to modern civilization, I should say that it is the application of the idea of continuous and experimental research, found so effective in economic enterprise, to the business of public administration intimately and in a deep-thrusting sense, a contribution to the processes by which modern mankind is striving with all its resources to emancipate itself from the tyranny of rules of thumb and the blind regimen of nature, becoming conscious of its destiny as an all conquering power. View quote
Charles A. Beard
I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb. View quote
Elia Kazan
Jesus offers his disciples a simple rule of thumb which will enable even the least sophisticated of them to tell whether his intercourse with others is on the right lines or not. All he need do is to say "I” instead of "Thou,” and put himself in the other man's place. View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I want to defend society and its inhabitants from all ideologies, science included. All ideologies must be seen in perspective. One must not take them too seriously. One must read them like fairy-tales which have lots of interesting things to say but which also contain wicked lies, or like ethical prescriptions which may be useful rules of thumb but which are deadly when followed to the letter. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly. (Paul Graham)
As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last place in the world you'd want to live. View quote
Paul Graham
Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence. View quote
Donald Norman
The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head. But I've no spade to follow men like them. Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests. I'll dig with it. View quote
Seamus Heaney
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. View quote
Seamus Heaney
Marke ye, how she hitteth me on the thombis (quoth hée) And ye taunt me tyt ouer thumb (quoth shée) Sens tyt for tat (quoth I) on euen hand is set. View quote
John Heywood
So important, indeed, is the use of maps in geographic work, that, without wishing to propose any new law, it seems fair to suggest to the geographer a ready rule of thumb to test the geographic quality of any study he is making: if his problem cannot be studied fundamentally by maps - usually by a comparison of several maps - then it is questionable whether or not it is within the field of geography. View quote
Richard Hartshorne
There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that. View quote
Mary Beard
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. View quote
Nicole Scherzinger
A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters. View quote
Richard Thaler
It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind. (Samuel R. Delany)
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. View quote
Famke Janssen
There are two competing philosophies in 'Wool': one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out. View quote
Hugh Howey
It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
When it comes to foods as we age, it is a good rule of thumb to focus on high-quality, whole, fresh foods as the basis of all your meals. View quote
Denise Austin