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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
Isaac Newton
God
Alone
Me
Other
Would
Proof
Absence
Thumb
Existence
Any
Convince
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Neil Armstrong
Me
Space
Earth
Giant
Eye
Out
Pretty
Struck
Small
Put
Thumb
Feel
Like
Felt
Up
Very
Blotted
Blue
Tiny
Planet
Planet Earth
Suddenly
Shut
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King Solomon
Wisdom
God
Learning
Fools
First
Down
Only
Step
Thumb
Bowing
First Step
Noses
Start
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
Politics
You
Losing
Complaining
Unfair
Other
Rule
Sign
About
Guy
Point
Thumb
Being
Where
Mean
Being Mean
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
Neil Armstrong
Earth
Out
Put
Thumb
Up
Blotted
Planet
Planet Earth
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
Jessye Norman
Time
You
Strange
Yourself
People
Weather
Live
Every
Think
Every Time
Air
Way
Out
Find
About
Something
Put
Thumb
Limit
Up
Very
Send
Going
Different
Want
Your
Strange Way
As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.
John McCain
Business
Survival
Communication
Important
Wave
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
All The Difference
Someone
Guy
Only
Wink
Put
Thumb
Most
Most Important Thing
Makes
Important Thing
His
Tap
Up
Wall
Goes
Difference
Confinement
The Most Important
As Far As
Far
Even
Thing
The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.
Jim Lovell
You
Hide
Space
Moon
Perception
Edge
Back
Our
Everything
Earth
Correct
Outer
Window
Give
Rather
Put
Thumb
Look
Known
Ball
Existence
Normal
Up
Tucked
Behind
Galaxy
Your
Flights
Star
Away
Ever
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
Julia Cameron
You
Rule
Say
Follow
Something
Remarkable
Never
Thumb
Instead
Most
Learned
Doing
Whether
Ask
Then
Your
Seat
Things
Fasten
Belt
I could put my thumb up to a window and completely hide the Earth. I thought, 'Everything I've ever known is behind my thumb.'
Jim Lovell
Hide
Thought
Everything
Earth
Window
Could
Put
Thumb
Known
Up
Behind
Ever
I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
Tom Hooper
People
Think
Throat
Thumb
Print
Goes
Childhood
Many
Trauma
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
P. J. O'Rourke
Strange
World
Care
Digital
Too
Digital World
I Care
Seem
Cases
More
Computers
Thumb
Head
Study
Like
Sciences
Odd
Close
Than
Human
Natives
Little
Social
Flexible
Social Sciences
Societies
I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.
Adam Hughes
Myself
People
Remember
Long
Think
Draw
Drawing
Out
Only
Only Difference
Never
Thumb
Soon
Like
Been
Grab
Stopped
Difference
Children
Crayons
Figure
The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.
Amy Lee
Love
Music
Gone
Rule
Way
About
Thumb
Make
Always
Making
Been
Just
I love magic. Like, 'pull a scarf out of your fake thumb' magic. I have a legit bag of 'Magic Stuff' in my garage.
Andy Grammer
Love
Out
Scarf
Magic
Thumb
Bag
Stuff
Like
Fake
Your
Garage
Pull
'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.
Bari Weiss
Good
Women
Myth
Believe
Rule
All Women
Only
Outside
Thumb
Falls
Women Are
Flat
Victorian
England
Works
The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.
Barton Gellman
Drive
Faster
Other
Though
Boot
Launch
Slower
Sluggish
Windows
Drives
Thumb
Feel
Most
Operations
Still
Up
Than
Far
Usable
Hard
Standard
Application
I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.
Ben Domenech
Government
Technology
Man
Seen
Drive
Incredibly
Complex
Systems
Charged
Thumb
Know
How
Did
Information
Information Technology
Use
Who
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
Time
You
Job
Hair
Just Be
Think
Rule
Thumb
Quit
Just
Cut
Ask
Should
Means
Your
Over the years, I've hurt my thumb, separated my shoulder, and injured my back, but not too bad. Actually, my back was hurt pretty bad. I had to take an ambulance and was in bed for a week.
Chloe Kim
Hurt
Too
Back
Bad
Pretty
Week
Take
Had
Thumb
Over
Bed
Years
Ambulance
Separated
Shoulder
Injured
Actually
We're living in miraculous times where connections are made at the blink of an eye, the tap of a thumb, and the click of a mouse. We can never replace human interaction, but these simple actions can be powerful and meaningful to those we connect with.
Christy Turlington
Simple
Made
Living
Those
Eye
Miraculous
Never
Thumb
Powerful
Click
Blink
Tap
Replace
Times
Mouse
Human
Where
Interaction
Meaningful
Connect
Actions
Connections
I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.
Clark Gregg
Theatre
Thought
College
Nothing
Drama
Saw
Bit
Hooked
Out
Some
About
Ado
Recover
Joined
Students
Football
Thumb
Football Player
Passed
Audition
Walking
Lovely
Much
Production
Player
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
Guitar
School
College
Bass
High
High School
Thumb
Then
Actually
Played
Career
Fractured
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
Music
Nothing
Creation
Kind
Fact
Self
Thumb
Like
Indulgent
Dumb
In Fact
Your
Sucking
As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
Craig Brown
Rule
Say
Would
More
Thumb
Smaller
Fish
Pond
Rough
Belligerent
We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional sources of law and legal interpretation - text, structure, history, canons of interpretation, precedent, and other well-established tools of the judicial craft - are prioritized, weighted, and applied.
Diane S. Sykes
History
Legal
Law
Important
Interpretation
Other
Tools
Scales
Structure
Thumb
Weighted
Judicial
How
Traditional
Sources
Text
Precedent
Craft
Heavy
Canon
Theoretical
Applied
Need
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