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
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As a forecasting rule of thumb, the yield curve has been pretty good — but it may not be a good rule of thumb today.
Dorsey Farr
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
Just thumb through like you're looking for a Coach handbag (in a catalog).
Beverly Mills
Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
John W. Gardner
This guy spent his early days watching his father not have to lift a thumb in the clubhouse. He gets to Arizona State, and he's treated like the Second Coming. So everywhere he's gone, it's kind of added on like bricks.
Jeff Pearlman
He had a green thumb. He loved to water the plants and cut the flowers. He was so proud of how his trees looked.
Larry Garza
I don't think we're seeing the real Rickie right now, ... There are some things that we haven't been able to work on a lot because his thumb has been bothering him a bit, but you can see that he is going to be a special player.
Milwaukee Brewers
It's hard to win both tournaments, to play that perfect two weeks in a row, unless you're a dominating team. That's the rule of thumb.
Todd Kimble
[Hardaway] sprained it and tried to play through it. The tissue stretched and basically he runs the chance of having a long-term detriment. It's our recommendation because of how unstable the thumb is to have it repaired now before it gets so severe that he ends up having arthritis or career-threatening injuries.
Thomas Carter
That really held him back, but he's a fighter so he kept playing but he was in pain the whole time. He kept getting hit off the thumb and it really hurt him. But he played for us.
Loren Jacula
We're the last people who were here during that time. It's really great to see this new generation come on, this generation of players, generation of coaches, it's really an exciting time. They've done well and they've earned it. I look at this as a separate thing; this is not one for the thumb, it's one for these guys.
Dan Rooney
Cal said he felt sorry for the Cuban people about how Batista had them under his thumb. He always said that Castro wasn't a communist until (the United States) made him one.
John Drummond
It sits out there like a sore thumb.
Rob Wacker
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
Gabriel Byrne
Take this as a rule of thumb. There are smart folks doing this transition, and they're deciding how to do it in the best way.
Matt Cutts
There?s other reasons involved (as to why he signed this kind of deal). Now, he?s under our thumb and on our watch and I think he?s in a good spot.
Paul Holmgren
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.
Lewis H. Lapham
It's coming along pretty good. I still feel some pain in the thumb but I can handle the pain.
Jen Kollaer
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
It's a lovely book. I thumb through it and find it actually of interest. . . . I had no idea that all of these things he found had affected my songs.
Robert Hunter
Hiring has been a gradual process. We only hire someone when we really need them. It takes a while to get people up to speed. Our rule of thumb is to only hire when absolutely necessary.
Cabel Sasser
They're doing a tour that's sponsored by MySpace with a lot of other bands that are probably heavy rock. They're gonna stick out like a sore thumb. It'll be really cool.
Mike Einziger
The best way to describe the pain is if someone were to take a hammer and pound your thumb over and over.
Hope Bevilhymer
I put up my thumb... and it blotted out the planet Earth.
Neil Armstrong
It's the biggest sore thumb out there. One hundred kids is not a school.
Peter Davis
It felt really good because my cast wasn't moving at all and my thumb didn't hurt when I pushed.
Chris Woods
I didn't just want to sit and suck my thumb and write.
Nicholas Kristof
Eventually you get to the point where you won't be able to grip anything. Your ability to grip an object depends very much on the thumb — the thumb is the most powerful of the digits, so when movement of the thumb becomes painful you can't hold on to things.
Alan Hedge
A good rule of thumb is not to pick up or offer rides to strangers.
Clint Norred
The rule of thumb is that you dress one or two levels higher than the job that you're going for. If you were going for a job as a mechanic, you wouldn't go in there in dirty overalls, even though that's how you would dress for that kind of work. You would still go in there and show respect. You would go in with an open-collar shirt, clean pants and maybe a jacket.
Kate Wendleton
The question is, which three? In dinosaurs we know it's the thumb and the next two fingers.
Alan Feduccia
A five or six-pointed star tattoo on the hand, between the thumb and forefinger or on the arm, is common to several gangs, including the Gangster Disciples and Bloods.
David Conley
The real thumb can move in five types of way. We have managed to create a thumb that can mimic at least two of these like hold a ball, move the thumb and middle finger, as when unlocking the door or gripping an object like a hammer or microphone.
Paul Chappell
You really need to know what federal income tax bracket you're in to determine whether tax-free funds offer more of a benefit. As a rule of thumb, anyone who falls in the 36 or 39 percent tax bracket should consider tax-free funds.
Peter Crane
If you look at other strips from the 1950s, he stuck out like a sore thumb. I'm sure he probably got some of the same complaint letters that I get now.
Stephan Pastis
We want to appeal to people and make them feel like they've got a good green thumb. This is a great program that both helps the environment, and also disabled adults.
Shelly Flood
It's not enough to thumb your nose at the rest of the country (and) to say 'in 1980 it was like this,' .
David Taras
(He) walked over to this thing, grabbed it with his thumb and forefinger, and lifted it off the table. The place just erupted.
Victor Penman
I have a glimmer of hope, based on the rule of thumb: Within 24 hours, you can still find survivors. After that, you move on to the recovery phase.
Rosette Lerias
It's impossible to know how many people we don't catch. The rule of thumb is that there isn't a rule of thumb.
Rob Daniels
This isn't a hard and fast rule. It's been a rough rule of thumb for the last three years. For example, last year we had six teams of 12 players each. We had 52 residents and 20 non-residents.
Bob Burbank
In general there's a rule of thumb that one year in the state system is worth two or three in the federal system.
David Gourevitch
You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
Nancy Banks Smith
The desire for freedom in China is as strong as ever before. The 1989 effort almost succeeded. The fact that it failed in 1989, the fact that the leaders - over 1,000 of them - were executed does not mean that one-fifth of the world's population wishes to be held under the thumb of communism forever.
Christopher Cox
The normal rule of thumb is that you don't allow any political activity (by an asylum-seeker).
John Stremlau
When we were leaving, Jerry (Narron) said, 'You're going to come to Cincinnati and see us play next year,' ... He moved his thumb. His mother said that means 'OK.' I got pretty choked up. Jerry did, too.
Mark Berry
If you want a rule of thumb, 40 percent of the cost of putting in a new application is integrating it with the other applications.
Stephen Kamman
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
As a rule of thumb, never answer an e-mail asking for personal financial information. But if you realize that you made the mistake, don't wait ? call your bank immediately.
Joyce Banish
Our rule of thumb is, if it's a foul, call it. If it's a violation, call it. We want to keep it that simple.
Ronnie Carter
We don't believe it was a one-time thing. Before the boyfriend entered into the picture, this little girl didn't even have a cold. After he had prolonged exposure with the girl, she suffered a broken thumb. She suffered injuries to her leg and ultimately, these injuries that resulted in her death.
Carl Brizzi
I find that writing comes from the three fingers. The thumb, the index and middle fingers. It flows out of the pen. Real writing comes out of your hand, for me, anyway.
Cynthia Ozick
There is no legal authority for the chief to thumb his nose at us -- and I won't accept it, ... I won't tolerate it.
Gil Garcetti
The importance of the thumb can't be underestimated. The actions of the hand include pinch and a grasping function.
Dr. Thomas Graham
The rule of thumb is that aircraft are built for a 20-year economic life. That doesn't mean they fall out of the sky after 20 years. But it does mean they need tender loving care.
Mary Schiavo
It's a diabolical system. We win by resisting, to not be under the thumb of a government that wants to dominate us.
Antonio Ledezma
If you keep your thumb over the opening so that just a little trickles out, you can take a shower with three 12-ounce bottles. But it takes six bottles if you want to wash your hair.
Donald Bordelon
It's one of those things that happen in basketball. I've broken other fingers before, but never my right thumb.
Ruth Riley
With more technologies, there are more choices. Choose wisely and well. You don't have to read every e-mail you get; you need to develop your own rules of thumb and steps to sanity.
Paul Saffo
The general rule of thumb is to have seven to 10 days worth of water and food.
David Stegner
(Kelly) was productive early but has not been as productive late. He has a severe bruised thumb and has been struggling with that.
Bret Campbell
In terms of what it's doing to editorial staff, these are not horrible cuts. All three of these papers have fairly fat staffs compared with most other papers, if you take the rule of thumb of one editorial employee for every 1,000 [in] circulation.
John Morton
We pay close attention to what things are selling for new in the big box stores. Rule of thumb, things are going to be priced at about 60 percent of what they are selling for now.
Merle Clark
He pitched a good game. His thumb still isn't 100 percent, but he gutted it out.
David Saliba
With this hand you can clutch objects such as a ball, you can move the thumb out to one side and grip objects with the index finger in the way you do when opening a lock with a key, and you can wrap your fingers around an object in what we call the power grip – like the one you use when you hold a hammer or a microphone.
Paul Chappell
I'm throwing good, my thumb is 100 percent.
Gerald Laird
A simple rule of thumb is that the more geometric something is, ... the easier it is to reproduce on a computer. The more organic something is, the more difficult it is to reproduce on computer. And so, hence, 'Toy Story' was the perfect story for our first film -- man-made world, man-made environment, flat floors. 'A Bug's Life,' there is nothing geometric about this movie.
John Lasseter
I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.
Rickie Lee Jones
Sometimes I just thumb through the dictionary. I find words I don't know the meaning of.
Dylan Williams
I started this company because I'm passionate about privacy. And I won't sit idly by while the freedom of the Internet is crushed and access to information is restricted under the thumb of repressive regimes.
Lance Cottrell
It brings New Jersey in more of the mainstream of other states in terms of our tax policy. Two taxes where New Jersey stood out like a sore thumb in taxing its businesses, where no other state did the same, will now be eliminated.
Philip Kirschner
In basketball country, well, we have the pivot so what he does is leaves his thumb back and he pivots instead of having 16 or 17 positions he's broken it down into only six. Consequently he's able to play pieces of a much higher difficulty with great ease.
Hans Sturm
The most difficult pitch for a young catcher to catch is the glove-hand side pitch. You have a tendency to want to turn your glove the wrong way, and that's when you break your thumb or at least bruise it.
Joe Maddon
A general rule of thumb is, ... you don't introduce dog legislation because it doesn't go anywhere.
Andrew Wright
I was very concerned. At the time, I couldn't grab a bat. Every time I touched the bat, my thumb hurt. I didn't think I'd be able to play at all. But then, all of a sudden, it healed up good.
Joey Cabret
I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on the simple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
Bernadette Devlin
You might be able to catch somebody, but if you don't have any mobility you're going to stick out like a sore thumb. That's kind of why I like this defense. Everybody can skate.
Larry Robinson
He fixed my thumb. I have no pain, no loss at all.
Betsy Mcgrail
First was the establishment of a curved thumb on the bow, for without the thumb being capable of flexing, the bow arm must be faulty. Second, was a good left hand setting on the fingerboard in the lower positions. Third, were the early scales, exercises, and finger independence studies.
Dr. Leonard Rosenman
I think it's a general rule of thumb ? the force of the water will not allow you to walk through if it is over your knees.
Brian Mcinerney
My rule of thumb is that the national average pump price will typically be 65 cents higher than the NYMEX price, ... Most of that will get passed to consumers within three weeks.
Mark Routt
I biked as much as I could, then I would thumb a ride. Eighty to 85 miles a day is just too much.
Joan Irwin
We ask you to supply your two favorite pieces of biometric data — such as your right index finger and left thumb or right eye and left thumb.
Steven Brill
I noticed sharp pain in the area between my thumb and index finger, ... I remember making more telephone calls deliberately to avoid having to use the keyboard and the BlackBerry.
Steve Maviglio
Till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore.
Tilda Swinton
Or another rule of thumb is to add one car length for every 10 mph you are traveling.
Steve Vitolo
With this hand, you can clutch objects such as a ball, ... you can move the thumb out to the side and grip objects with the index finger in the way you do when opening a lock with a key.
Paul Chappell
It was so painful to thumb through that book and see pictures of houses in Biloxi and Gulfport and know that those houses are no longer there.
Steve Yates
Rule of thumb is that every concert set, which includes rehearsals, costs about $10,000.
Noralee Monestere
We don't know exactly what that will mean (in terms of how many matches he will miss) - all I've heard from the doctors is he may have broken his thumb.
Leigh Matthews
Every part of my body is sore. My ankle hurts, my knee, and I think there's something wrong with my wrist. My thumb still hurts, too, but I've just got to play through it.
Eddie Crockett
One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.
Elizabeth Kenny
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