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

Quasi

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

P.C. Cast

#12. Opposable thumbs are overrated.

Terry Kaye

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. [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

#17. 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

#18. These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

Thomas Frank

#19. Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.

Chris Paul

#20. I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Rebecca Solnit

#21. Gods have become like us, ergo, we have become like gods. And to you, my unknown planetary readers, we will come to you, to make your life as divinely rational and exact as ours.

Yavgeny Zamyatin -We

#22. Whenever you feel me,
just call me
With the silence of your soul,
and with the softness of your love.
I will be with you,
With the magic of my love.
You may not see me,
But you will feel me.
You will hear my song
In the depth of your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

Izaak Walton

#24. 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

#25. My painting does not come from the easel.

Jackson Pollock

#26. Life is all about conflict. The pursuit of happiness - that's life, not the achievement. It's all about the journey, my friend.

Michael J. Sullivan

#27. Beautiful," she said. I turned the page, and she smiled. It was a picture of the day when we built the human pyramid in my backyard, and I was at the top. The caption read: One day, all these Mexicans built a pyramid to the Sun. "You were my pyramid," she whispered. "All of you.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#28. We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population.

Thabo Mbeki

#29. I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

Lafcadio Hearn

#30. So if you think this is going to save you ... If you think anything is going to save you ... Please consider this your final warning.

Chuck Palahniuk