Thimble Quotes

The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble! (Alice Walker)
And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble. View quote
Joanna Newsom
I don't want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble. View quote
Don DeLillo
Between 1999 and 2004 there was no investment in Australia, it all went into housing and consumption all borrowed on the current account. When Peter Costello runs around saying, 'Oh we've paid off the debt,' it's like the pea and thimble trick. The Government debt or the massive private debt abroad? It's continuing to grow. View quote
Paul Keating
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble. View quote
Warren Buffett
She said out of pity for him, "I shall give you a kiss if you like," but though he once knew, he had long forgotten what kisses are, and he replied, "Thank you," and held out his hand, thinking she had offered to put something into it. This was a great shock to her, but she felt she could not explain without shaming him, so with charming delicacy she gave Peter a thimble which happened to be in her pocket, and pretended that it was a kiss. View quote
J. M. Barrie
The universe will fill your cup... if you carry a big cup, a little cup, or a thimble! View quote
Sonia Choquette
My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command. View quote
Lincoln Steffens
Finishing schools are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human being can be crushed I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . View quote
Olive Schreiner
What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning. View quote
Wilford Brimley
For the first twenty years of my life I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it's funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even make it to bed. I'd squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours later, having lost a perfectly good excuse to change my clothes. I'm now told that this is not called "going to sleep" but rather "passing out," a phrase that carries a distinct hint of judgment. (David Sedaris)
I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever coming back. View quote
Aaron Weiss
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. View quote
Margaret Atwood
If you put Durant's brains in a thimble full of water they'd look like a ship lost in the middle of the sea. View quote
Scott Lynch
I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases. View quote
Pablo Neruda