Quotes About Green Thumbs

#1. There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

John Steinbeck

#2. In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.

Bharati Mukherjee

#3. Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me ... I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#5. I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

Lawrence Block

#6. Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all.
You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story.
Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.

Patrick Ness

#7. I didn't care that we were out in public. I didn't care that he was Moroi. All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime.

Richelle Mead

#8. I'm with the federal government, Drummond, Trust me is another way of saying I'm lying.

Brian Haig

#9. The Ben Franklin Effect: If weak ties do favors for us, they start to like us. Then they become even more likely to grant us additional favors in the future. Franklin decided that if he wanted to get someone in his side, he ought to ask for a favor. And he did.

Meg Jay

#10. You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.

Steven Wilson

#11. The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. And ... by the pricking of my thumbs, something morally ambiguous this way comes.

Simon R. Green