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Jared cupped my jaw and his thumb brushed my cheek. 'As long as you heart is beating, so is mine — Jamie McGuire

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb. — Patrick Rothfuss

I like to give you pleasure & I like to give you pain. I like for your entire existence to be under my thumb — Renee Rose

In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child. — Sam Kean

A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat. — David Baldacci

Lovely ceremony, gorgeous bride. Take care of her." Troy brushed his thumb over his lips, scanning my body like it was dessert. — L.J. Shen

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb. — Haruki Murakami

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love. — Amy Lee

I didn't want to cry in front of you."
He wiped away the tears with the pad of his thumb.
"I want you to cry only in front of me. — Robyn Carr

I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved. — Wayne Rogers

Sometimes the devil you knew was easier to face than the devil who'd pressed you to a bedpost and rolled your nipple under his thumb. — Tessa Dare

Stupid thumb! Stupid boy! Step away Fallon, step away! — Toni Aleo

This isn't food." Bram picked up a lavender-iced cake between thumb and finger and stared at it. "This is ... edible ornamentation. — Tessa Dare

Now those are lethal weapons." He stroked her lower lip with the pad of his thumb. "My heart stops every time you kiss me. — Crystal Hubbard

Having a sister is like having a thumb; you simply believe it will always be there, because how could you possibly get along without it? — Bette Lee Crosby

I could not think of anything but his fingers on my neck, his thumb on my lips. — Tracy Chevalier

Too much under the thumb of the Iranians. — Adam Schiff

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

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? — Douglas Adams

His features were smudged and indistinct, as though a thumb had smeared itself across an ink drawing of a face. His — John Connolly

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off. — Lee Haney

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

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

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan. — Thomas Sowell

He touches my face, his thumb smoothing over my lips. You're my June, Tru. — Samantha Towle

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

The rule of thumb is that you need a day on Earth to recover from each day in space, — Chris Hadfield

I don't see anything wrong in sticking your thumb into a guy's eye. Just a little. — Tony Galento

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

chest, pressing damp cotton against her skin, the ball of his thumb down in her cleavage. Not a tender gesture. — Lee Child

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches. — Tim McCarver

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. — Walter Mischel

Will you tell me what you have on under your dress tonight?" She licked the tip of his thumb. "I could, but that would ruin the surprise. — Skye Jordan

I'm willing to be under anything...as long as it isn't somebody's thumb. — Amor Towles

so huge. My thumb can't even reach the tips of my fingers. I continue to stroke him as he rides down — Justine Elvira

Erra pointed at Curran with her thumb. "You want to marry this? Is there a shortage of men? — Ilona Andrews

USB drive (sometimes called a "thumb" or "jump" drive) — Anonymous

He reached out and brushed his thumb along my bottom lip. "You're my girl, Aimee. No one else. — Jane Harvey-Berrick

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

However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody's eye. — Raymond Chandler

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams. — Carl Sandburg

Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience. — Vineet Raj Kapoor

One of Ender's toonmates shook his head. You dumb as a thumb. — Orson Scott Card

By the texting of your thumb, something wicked this way comes? I — Elliott James

You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb. — Steven Wilson

His dick throbbing now like a smashed thumb ... — Cherrie Lynn

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

He gazed into my eyes and stroked my bottom lip lovingly with his thumb. "Mine," he whispered.
"Yes, yours. Only yours. Always. — Kendall Ryan

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs. — Rodney Dangerfield

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition. — Timothy Noah

I'm not doing anything, baby. I love you. I'm being faithful to you." He held up his ring, his thumb stroking the metal. "I promised ... I promise — S.C. Stephens

I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate. — Jeffrey Donovan

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy. — Charles M. Schulz

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car. — John McAfee

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs,
whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle ... — Anne Sexton

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

I half expected to find Sherlock Holmes thumb wrestling with Jane Austen in the corner. — Rachel Cohn

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

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb. — Guy Pearce

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

Clocks are the enemies of time ... they are the gaolers of day and the turnkeys of night.
Tom Thumb — Lavie Tidhar

I," he says, grazing his thumb over my mouth. "Will always need you. A male cannot exist apart from his heart." Neither — Ruby Dixon

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

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

He was still holding the end of her scarf, rubbing the silk idly between his thumb and fingers. She watched his hand. — Rainbow Rowell

Pigskin crackling on my thumb, nummy nummy I hate pain. — Leonard Cohen

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power. — Otto Von Bismarck

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. — Rachael Ray

Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites. — Rick Perlstein

If I wasn't certain you were bigger than my thumb, I should've guessed your dress was fashioned from rose petals and spiders' web. — Jessica Brockmole

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that. — Jamie Zawinski

I felt his forehead against mine, another swipe of his thumb to wipe the wetness away and I heard him whisper, Baby, I can't keep up. — Kristen Ashley

And I'm leaving you that plant," he lamented. "You are good with plants, aren't you?"
Great, I lied. (I could make the Congo wither and die...) — Wilton Barnhardt

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

He held up the fingers of his left hand, with the thumb concealed.
- There are five fingers there. Do you see five fingers?
- Yes. — George Orwell

The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses. — Albert Einstein

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

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

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

He wiped his thumb across the trail of her tears. If I could, I would get the whole world for you. — Jody Hedlund

Gabriel smiled and his thumb grazed her cheek. She thought for a terrifying moment that he was going to kiss her — A.J. Flowers

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. — Tom Hooper

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

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

Not once in her life had Darcy wanted to thumb her nose at danger and rip the clothes off a man, but she was contemplating that very thing. — Donna Grant

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

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. — John W. Gardner

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

You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does. — Babatunde Adebimpe

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

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

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

She's only got eight fingers but she's got them stuck in all kinds of pies, and she keeps her thumbs bare for testing new ones. — Catherine Cookson

He brushed his thumb across her lips. I guess you're not as easy to forget as we'd hoped. — Kelly Creagh

Using my thumb and middle finger, I tend to make snap decisions. Right away I know whether I like a song or not. — Jarod Kintz

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. — Isaac Newton

His thumb moved slowly over my cheek. All of this. Having you. It's worth- anything — L.A. Weatherly

This won't kill me," he said, then uttered a sardonic laugh. He got up anyway, keeping his thumb pressed against the inside of his upper arm. — Kayti Nika Raet

Shit," Amos said. "And here I was enjoying being so absolutely thumb-up-the-ass useless." "You — James S.A. Corey

Something - exactly like a finger and thumb it felt - nipped my nose. — H.G.Wells