Idle Thumbs Quotes

#1. The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.

Marilyn Manson

#2. I want to make a revolving door that says 'Pull' on it, just see how obedient people are.

Demetri Martin

#3. We all have pain, Wes. It isn't life sithout it. What matters in life isn't that we escape pain. What matters is that we overcome it.

Heidi Cullinan

#4. Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.

Pauline Kael

#5. I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

Rashida Jones

#6. A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Oscar Wilde

#7. 3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Anonymous

#8. Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

Kami Garcia

#9. I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.

Aleksandar Hemon

#10. We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.

V.C. Andrews

#11. To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Chinua Achebe

#12. I have had my share of twiddling my thumbs while sitting idle at home

Ranvir Shorey