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The taste of chalk. The sun lays its copper thumbs on my eyelids. The radio plays the monologue of a dog. What is the formula for tomorrow? — Warren Heiti

I hear the doc gave you a thumbs-up on your surgery
-Marc to Julian — Pamela Clare

I put both my thumbs under my chin and pushed upwards. Chin up, Shirley, I commanded — Jacqueline Wilson

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors. — Arthur Miller

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. — Edward Abbey

We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs. — Andrew Miller

BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS — Diana Gabaldon

When it comes to texting the power of you thumbs compel you — Stanley Victor Paskavich

My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up. — Emraan Hashmi

I wish I had more hands, so I could give those titties four thumbs down! — Dave Chappelle

Who has two thumbs and isn't an idiot? — R.S. Penney

If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world. — P.C. Cast

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days. — Sarah Dessen

It's all in the opposition of the thumbs. For all we know, whales sing in three act plays - but they can't write them down. — Bronwen Wallace

I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but. — Molly Crabapple

Her hands cupped his face, thumbs caressing his cheekbones. "I love you, Mr. Bennett."
"Good thing. Hate to be the only one afflicted. — Ellen O'Connell

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

Thumbs grow into my throat.
I wear slaps like a spot of rouge. — Anne Sexton

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs. — Barbara Bush

As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser. — Michael Moore

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. — V.C. Andrews

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

You're not really mean." Eve hooked her thumbs in her front pockets. "Am, too. Mean as spit, and don't you forget it. — J.D. Robb

You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production. — Mary Mattingly

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

And ... by the pricking of my thumbs, something morally ambiguous this way comes. — Simon R. Green

Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring! — Vidya Balan

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

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run. — Andrew Tobias

Lost: one bonnet, two clogs. Kept in spite of the odds: two thumbs, one life. — Frances Hardinge

You ever notice if you call someones cell phone they won't answer but if you text them seconds later they will. The Power of your Thumbs compels You! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

God's only mistakes are dogs and not giving cats opposable thumbs. Otherwise, it's a perfect world. — Quasi

They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs. — Ron Livingston

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

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

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. — Diane Lane

Who's got no thumbs and totally made best friends with a dragon? This guy!" She — Jake Bible

Can I get a two-thumbs up for a fatter America? — Andrew Sturm

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

Jack. He'd never give us a phone, or a window. "Ma takes my thumbs and squeezes them. "We are people in a book, and he wont let anybody else read it. — Emma Donoghue

I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped. — Kristen Stewart

I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer. — Kingsley Amis

Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet. — Meat Loaf

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard. — Kristin Armstrong

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Every honest miller has a golden thumb. — Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal
if you don't use your thumbs. — Tom Lehrer

I get the thumbs up like I'm hailing a yellow cab. — Nicki Minaj

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs. — Faith Hunter

I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that. — Mackenzie Davis

I have had my share of twiddling my thumbs while sitting idle at home — Ranvir Shorey

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

If you continue in this vein, I'll amputate your thumbs and big toes so that you'll reel through the rest of your life like a drunken orangutan. — Wes Craven

Dad sometimes sends me texts saying, 'Just heard you on the radio, thumbs up', or whatever. So that's pretty cute. — Courtney Barnett

Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys! — Garth Stein

And if God hadn't wanted us to masturbate, then God wouldn't have given us thumbs. So I thank God for my thumbs. — Sherman Alexie

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

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

Long and short of it: Democracy gets a big thumbs-up from me. — James Patterson

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

Sissy dear. Your thumbs. HOLLYWOOD SPECTACULAR. LAS VEGAS. THE ROSE BOWL. Larger than any one man's desire. — Tom Robbins

I'm neither 'pro-women' nor 'anti-men'. I'm just 'Thumbs up for the six billion — Caitlin Moran

I saw a sneak preview of Jack Reacher and give two thumbs up to Tom Cruise. He did a great job with the role. — Michael Connelly

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. — Ray Bradbury

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down." — Kevin Costner

'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs. — Tina Brown

The thumbs have been pricked, at least proverbially. — Chloe Neill

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway. — Anne Heche

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

Hello, I'm Stan and I'm a textaholic I am powerless over my thumbs — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

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

Opposable thumbs are overrated. — Terry Kaye

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

His thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies — Samantha Shannon

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs. — Dave Barry

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

Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay. — James Scott Bell

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

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms. — Julia London

I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food. — Robert Orben

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up. — Adam Arkin

All night I have bad dreams about severed hands. In one I'm eating chili and a hand comes out of my bowl and gives me the thumbs-down. I — George Saunders

Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word. — N.D. Wilson

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

Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon)
Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

War on Drugs...will only be won when we point our thumbs at ourselves and ask the hard question: "How am I contributing to this problem? — David W. Earle

I don't need a hero, Wes." I say again, pressing our foreheads tight again, my thumbs both drawing soft lines along his jaw. "I just need you. — Ginger Scott

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

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up. — Tony Parsons

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs. — Arthur Baer

Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools. — Marion Dane Bauer

thumbs. With every minute — Roberta Kray

God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs. — Richard Dawkins

I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot. — Sharon Van Etten

Who's got two thumbs, speaks limited French and hasn't cried once today? This moi. — LIZ