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Thumbs Quotes - Page 3

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. [50]

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

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

"A Film Critic's Windy City Home". Interview with Edward Lewine, www.nytimes.com. February 13, 2005.

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

Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.66, Prometheus Books

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

"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.

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

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

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

Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

Elia Kazan, Michel Ciment (1974). “Kazan on Kazan”, Viking Adult