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When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'
William Safire

Saying, Through, Delight

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

Leave, Three, Might

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.
Jeremy Piven

Father, Fight, Play

I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.
Elisabeth Rohm

Different, Fact, Audience

We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
Barbara Mandrell

God, Blessed, Thinking

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?
Martin Goldsmith

Nice, School, Sunday

A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment.
Glenn Hughes

Great, Playing, Player

The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.
James E. Rogers

Time, President, Rule

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
Jeffrey Donovan

Surprise, Green, Bushes

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

Green, Bushes, Cultivate

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
Jessye Norman

Time, Yourself, Live

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.
Wolf Blitzer

Others, Interested, Rule

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
Nancy Banks Smith

Someone, Forever, Carry

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