Johnny Depp

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.

American Actor

Peter Riegert

You have to have an ego to be an actor, but you need an ego just to get through life! Unless you want to sit on a corner and suck your thumb, it takes a healthy ego to get up in the morning and say, 'I deserve to be here.

Sherry Turkle

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.

American Educator

Jim Cornette

There's probably as many rules of thumb to wrestling as anything in the world, and then there's just as many exceptions to every one of those rules because somebody doesn't fit that thumb.

American Author

Ethan Carter III

I work for my personal satisfaction and then for my bosses as well, and as long as I get the thumbs up and get paid by somebody, I feel like I'm doing my job, and I'm cool with that.

American Wrestler

Patricia Ireland

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

American Activist

Max Holloway

I know I'm the greatest, and like I said, I ain't here to be average. I always wanted to stick out as a sore thumb, so that's what I'm doing. It's just confidence.

American Athlete

King Solomon

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Royalty

Wayne LaPierre

If you aren't free to protect yourself - when government puts its thumb on that freedom - then you aren't free at all.

Eazy-E

People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

American Musician

Refers specifically to the larger finger used for gripping objects.

Physical Finger

In English, the thumb isn't typically referred to as a 'finger' for counting purposes.

Not For Counting

The action is usually light and quick, often done with books or papers.

Gentle Movement

'Thumb a ride' is a friendly, informal way to ask for a free ride, often used casually.

Requesting Rides

Thumbs up or down conveys approval or disapproval without words, understood globally.

Non-Verbal Signal

The phrase 'under the thumb' means to be controlled or dominated by someone else.

Under Control

Used when trying to get free transportation; signals need for a lift.

Seeking Transportation

Once common, thumbing rides is now less frequent due to safety concerns.

Cultural Changes

In sports, 'thumbing' someone usually means illegal or rough contact during play.

Sports Context

Can imply a physical action that is more aggressive or confrontational.

Physical Confrontation

 she said well alright I'll give you a little tip she said the first thing you want to do is it's just about dropping the thumb it's not like this because if you did that then your puppet would be going like this so it's all dropping so I'm gonna give you your first lesson in puppetry or your hands out we're gonna count no it's f you drop your thumb on

Life lessons from a...

 OK, reverse your hands. Now, follow my actions exactly. Now about half the audience has their left hand up. Why is that? OK, swap them around, put your right hand up. Cross your hands over, so your right hand goes over, interlace your fingers like this, then make sure your right thumb is outside your left thumb -- that's very important.

Brain magic PIPE Keith Barry

 old at the time she went right up to Liam and submitted and laid down on her back and my one-year-old son walked over there and got on top of his chest and grabbed her ears and put his thumb in her nose and putting his hand in her mouth and she wasn't doing anything she was just laying there and taking every bit of it

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 And you normally would not do anything to someone unless you wanted to provoke them into a fight, which is exactly what's about to happen. Looking deeper, biting your thumb in the time in which the play was written is like giving someone the finger today. A pretty strong feeling comes with that,

Insults by Shakespeare

 spoon I grabbed it from his hand I run my thumb on it it was greasy I took a smiie a sniff of it it was already smelling of somewhere it's been reused you know plastic has got so many chemical complexes in it phthalates chill aids bisphenol this cause cancer

A Spoon You Can Eat Is a...

 maybe I'm afraid of terrorists or sharks, anything that makes me feel, assume you're going to exaggerate the problem. That's a rule of thumb. Of course there are dangerous things that are also great. Sharks kill very, very few. That's how you should think.

How not to be ignorant...

 in real life this is a trick that none of our ancestors could do that no other animal can do quite like we can it's a marvellous adaptation it's up there with opposable thumbs and standing upright and language as one of the things that

The surprising science...

 It probably has lies in it as well. Having said that, I outlined my talk about five minutes ago. And if you look at it over here, the main thing I wrote on my thumb was the future. I'm supposed to talk about the future, yes?

The call to learn PIPE...

 or you can have blackout shades and that will help best regulate that critical sleep hormone of melatonin. The next tip is walk it out. Don't stay in bed awake for long periods of time. And the general rule of thumb

6 tips for better sleep...

 - very cute tiny thumbs and there's something that the public will have the opportunity to do as well it will be a paid experience and all that money will

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