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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

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 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

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

Well, what do I say?" I ran my thumb over my phone's screen. "Like, 'Good making out with your face last night? Let's do it again.'? — Robin Benway

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling. — Alice McDermott

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

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

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

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose. — Josephine Tey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile — Jimmy Buffett

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

Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream! — Charles M. Schulz

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? — William Shakespeare

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb! — Courtney Love

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

When you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly. — Veronica Roth

When you thumb your nose at the laws of physics like you've been doing, the universe tends to get you back through biology. Atticus — Kevin Hearne

No matter where it is in the sky ... No matter where you are in the world ... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John — Nicholas Sparks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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