Thumbs Quotes - Page 5

• It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

  Heath Ledger

  Thinking, Self, Doubt

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

  Amy Lee

  Gone, Way

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• There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

  Laura Ingraham

  Mean, Guy, Complaining

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• Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

  Jon Meacham

  War, President, World

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• On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.

  David Hockney

  Ipads, Iphone, Moments

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• But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

  Colin Hanks

  School, College, Guitar

  "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.

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• Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

  John Podhoretz

  Losing, Very Good, Begets

  "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.

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• The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

  John Podhoretz

  Views, People, Intellectual

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

  Rachael Ray

  Memories, Capes, Cape Cod

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• 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

  Food, Bodybuilding, Burning

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• I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Girl, Children, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Crazy, Luck, Plague

  "Comic-con: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner And Stephenie Meyer Talk The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2012.

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• 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

  Sweet, Keyboards, Affection

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• The Summer King stroked her cheek with his thumb. “Can you offer me your fidelity? Your heart and your body and your companionship for eternity? Do you want my fidelity? Either love me or kiss me goodbye, my Summer Queen.

  Melissa Marr

  Summer, Goodbye, Kings

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• What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Hate, Men

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.114, Hamilton Books

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• My general rule of thumb is, once something's a ride at Disneyland, I assume that it is no longer a threat in real life. Which is why I don't expect to get attacked by a giant tea cup anytime soon.

  Arj Barker

  Real, Tea, Giants

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• The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.

  Alexander Theroux

  Oil, Ducks, Skins

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• I like working with great talent, in every capacity. I have a rule of thumb, in any creative endeavor - whether I'm doing music and playing in a band, or working with producers, or directing - where I generally like to work with people who are smarter than me or better than me.

  Malik Yoba

  People, Creative, Band

  "Malik Yoba Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, Advice, Species

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

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• You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?

  Duane Michals

  Thinking, Expression, Wind

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• Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it. I'm 24 years old, I've got a load a money, what am I gonna do, sit at home and twiddle me thumbs? No. I'm gonna go out and 'ave it.

  Liam Gallagher

  Home, Years, People

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• 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

  Moon, Sky, World

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• You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Giving, Pulse, Ruth

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “True To Form”, p.283, Random House

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• I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you." "I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too." His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me.

  Tessa Dare

  Hurt, Thinking, Promise

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.213, Ballantine Books

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• I wanted to curl up into a fetal position and start sucking my thumb, let my tears and dripping saliva pool under me. Sorry. I tried living, tried being sentient. Can't do it. Can't live in the same universe with that.

  David Wong

  Sorry, Tears, Curls

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.289, Titan Books

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