
I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad
rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read. —
Barry Eisler

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

A good
rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment. —
Laurie A. Helgoe

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. —
Cliff Asness

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

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

A magician is a rule-of-thumb engineer. —
Robert A. Heinlein

The new
rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools. —
James E. Rogers

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

For each
rule of thumb, there is something that breaks that rule. —
Kristine Kathryn Rusch

(As a
rule of thumb, the sample size must be at least 30 for the central limit theorem to hold true.) This —
Charles Wheelan

My
rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa. —
David Lynch
Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition. —
Timothy Noah

Investigating
rule of thumb: people grumbled about work at home and about home at work. —
Cate Holahan

The
rule of thumb is that you need a day on Earth to recover from each day in space, —
Chris Hadfield
Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion. —
Ben Casnocha

There's an old
rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote. —
Joseph P. Kennedy III

I've always had this
rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it. —
Antony Starr

I think that it should just be a
rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair ... that means that it's time to quit that job. —
Blake Anderson

The
rule of thumb in student files seemed to be, If you have nothing negative to say, don't say anything at all. —
Harlan Coben
Rule of thumb: when in doubt, find a marine. —
Ally Carter

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

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this
rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. —
Robert Breault
Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run. —
Andrew Tobias

As a
rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. —
Diana Gabaldon

The astronomer's
rule of thumb:
if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen —
Clifford Stoll

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

At what age should one marry? As a
rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry. —
Jo Coudert

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

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

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

His
rule of thumb, after a walk, is to drink water until he begins to urinate again. Then he can consider other activities. —
Neal Stephenson

It's a good
rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth. —
Jonathan Safran Foer

As a
rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan. —
Rowena Cherry

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. —
Daniel H. Wilson

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. —
Christopher Hitchens

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

A good
rule of thumb is: Pack twice as many books as changes of underwear. —
Michael Dirda

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good
rule of thumb is to start in France. —
Robert H. Frank

A good
rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error. —
Dennis Miller