Top 33 Thumbs Quotes

They’re either going to fire you or they’re not. They can only fire you. That’s all they can do. They can’t take your thumbs.

When I’m later in the competition, I get antsy. I’m seeing everybody else go and achieve things. It’s like I’m just twiddling my thumbs.

Yeah, I’ve got quick thumbs.

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

When my father retired, all he did was twiddle his thumbs. I don’t want to go down that road. As long as I’m still in demand, I’ll work.

Listen, you make a big movie, you’re going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that’s part of the game. It’s part of the fun as well.

I’m blessed to have a family, so it’s not like I’m twiddling my thumbs. When I’m not working, that’s where all my attention comes.

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

I support Democrats and Republicans. And I’m telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he’s gone, everybody’s going to be sitting on their thumbs.

I can’t sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it’s miserable some days.

Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don’t use your thumbs.

Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I’m not familiar enough with it, and I’m too old-school a brain to be able to figure it out. I’m dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.

Back before our civilization despised itself, we applauded tough men. But you can’t produce tough men – or honorable women – without tough love. If you want to keep civilization, you better start by insisting that boys grow up, instead of trying to infantilize them so they’re afraid to stop sucking their thumbs.

I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there’s a movie where you see me on the phone, it’s not my hands.

There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can’t be avoided.

History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

Usually when you do a pilot, there’s a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

I like debate and argument, so I’m usually all right with disagreement, and I’m even all right if the critic doesn’t come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.

I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It’s my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.

I was just twiddling my thumbs in London, literally not knowing what I was going to do with my life, and my agent says, ‘You got an audition for ‘My Fair Lady’ with Bartlett Sher.’

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I’m up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they’ll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they’ve clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!

Dad sometimes sends me texts saying, ‘Just heard you on the radio, thumbs up’, or whatever. So that’s pretty cute.

Like how on earth can you make 180 grand as a senator with luxe health care and sit there and be like Nero, thumbs up or down, on paying someone a living wage? I don’t understand that.

Just ask anybody who is getting old – everything starts hurting. For me, it’s my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I’ve texted so much, so I definitely text too much.

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.

Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can’t communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

I’m always surprised when actors say they don’t like sex scenes. It’s like a freebie. It’s fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.

Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can’t be earned any other way. It’s obvious that people learn faster from ‘hands-on’ experience than they do watching someone else do something.