Lincoln Steffens

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

American Journalist

Wayne LaPierre

President Obama, he's never going to debate me on guns. His knowledge on that issue wouldn't fill a thimble, and he knows it. I would clean his clock, and he knows it.

American Activist

Margaret Atwood

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

Canadian Novelist

Wilford Brimley

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

American Actor

Sid Waddell

That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!

British Entertainer

Thimbles are small but crucial for preventing painful pricks while hand-sewing.

Sewing Safety

Thimbles have been used for centuries and can be collectible, made from various materials.

Historical Object

Thimbles are often used symbolically in stories and art to represent domestic life.

Cultural Symbol

In nautical contexts, thimbles prevent ropes from damaging, especially at connection points.

Rope Maintenance

Thimbles are essential for creating a loop at the rope's end through splicing.

Splicing Aid

Using a thimble on a rope maintains its strength by reducing wear at stress points.

Strength Preservation

 so we got a heavy thimble berry thicket and then we get heavy alder cover so if you're looking at this from the beach it looks pretty foreboding and then when you step inside the canopy you see a whole different world one of the reasons

A Cameraman's Wild...

 Because I was afraid if I said everything that she meant to me -- that I owed perhaps the best parts of who I became to her care, and that the words "I'm sorry" were like a thimble to bail out all the guilt and shame and rage I felt

Noy Thrupkaew: Human...

 In 1953, Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," forecast earbuds, "thimble radios," in his words. And in A Space Odyssey,"