#thumb

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! ↗

— Edward Abbey

#among #black #bricks #flowers #free

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

#blue #earth #eye #feel #felt

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#cast #giving #i #imagine #jamie

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#depreciate #doing #down #effective #him

In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#art form #as far as #between #both #differentiate

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#asked #dislocated #enough #grind #i

I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate. ↗

— Jeffrey Donovan

#cultivate #get #green #i #into

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#educated #fingers #knowing #must #thumb

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

— Elia Kazan

#i #i think #should #think #thumb

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