Robin Williams (1951–2014) American actor and stand-up comedian
"Dad. I miss you. Let's talk."
Weapons of Self Destruction (2010)
Radio From Hell (January 4, 2007)
Robin Williams (1951–2014) American actor and stand-up comedian
"Dad. I miss you. Let's talk."
Weapons of Self Destruction (2010)
“Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!”
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.”
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) German statesman, Chancellor of Germany
Wer den Daumen auf dem Beutel hat, der hat die Macht. <br class="br">Speech to North German Reichstag (21 May 1869), Stenographische Berichte p. 1017 (left) http://books.google.de/books?id=wm9HAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1017 <br class="br">1860s
“Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”
Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 1
Andrew Tobias (1947) American journalist
Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 16, How To Buy Insurance, p. 296.
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) British poet
First Love; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).