Opposable Quotes

#1. Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon)
Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.

Raph Koster

#3. 'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.

Tina Brown

#4. Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

James Scott Bell

#5. Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

Faith Hunter

#6. Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

Diane Lane

#7. We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.

Andrew Miller

#8. You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

Hillary Jordan

#9. Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. I think the imagination is the single most useful tool mankind possesses. It beats the opposable thumb. I can imagine living without my thumbs, but not without my imagination. I

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

P. J. O'Rourke

#12. God's only mistakes are dogs and not giving cats opposable thumbs. Otherwise, it's a perfect world.

Quasi

#13. If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world.

P.C. Cast

#14. Opposable thumbs are overrated.

Terry Kaye

#15. This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.

Ben Aaronovitch

#16. Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.

Mark Frauenfelder

#17. Seeing me shivering, he stretched a front leg toward the sweatshirt, pawing the edge and snarling when he realized he couldn't grab it.
"The lack of opposable thumbs is going to take some getting used to, huh?"

Kelley Armstrong

#18. [I don't get it. You guys look down on chimps for flinging their own poo but you think it's fine to fling other kinds of poo around? I mean, you get opposable thumbs and this is what you do with them?]

Kevin Hearne

#19. Eileen says what they should really do, if they want to be fair about it, is offer a Bible study class for credit, and let us take that instead of sitting an extra hour in study hall, twiddling our so-called opposable thumbs.

Laura Moriarty

#20. Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

Quincy Jones

#21. I have always loved kids. They are little adults with so much personality, and it is fun to work with that. Whether that means donating school supplies or medication, or [using my celebrity] to get them a bone marrow transplant, I want to help.

Rihanna

#22. How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself.

Yuriy Tarnawsky

#23. I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

Diane Keaton

#24. To stay youthful, stay useful.

John Keats

#25. A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

Lafcadio Hearn

#26. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#27. Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.

Van Day Truex

#29. If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

Jose Saramago

#30. I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Iris Apfel

#31. Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa's arena.

Peter F. Hamilton

#32. You know how it is. You make up your mind about something, and then you stop seeing anything that doesn't fit the way you already think things are.

Ellen O'Connell

#33. Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#34. I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

Andy Weir