Thimble Quotes

#1. I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

Herta Muller

#2. Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble

Warren Buffett

#3. I want to put my hands on your chest. I want to be in a thimble with you.

Jandy Nelson

#4. My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

Lincoln Steffens

#5. An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive

Ramakrishna

#6. absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could.

Lewis Carroll

#7. We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop.

Marisha Pessl

#8. I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases ...

Pablo Neruda

#9. That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!

Sid Waddell

#10. When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.

Warren Buffett

#11. With thimble and thread And wax and hammer, and buckles and screws, And all such things as geniuses use; - Two bats for patterns, curious fellows! A charcoal-pot and a pair of bellows.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#12. If you put Durant's brains in a thimble full of water they'd look like a ship lost in the middle of the sea.

Scott Lynch

#13. [Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move ...

Olive Schreiner

#14. There's no scandal involved," she said airily. "I have no connection with you whatsoever. I have nothing to do with you. You are a thimble filled with water next to my ocean. You are a grain of sand to my beach. You are a tiny star in the sky. You're nothing to me.

Karen Ranney

#15. There were a couple of occasions in India when I was twenty that felt to me like going out with a thimble in your hand, hoping to catch a drop of rain, and having the ocean land on your head. These experiences convinced me that there is an absolute love that pervades everything.

David James Duncan

#16. One time, that true brass thimble.

Sue Monk Kidd

#17. I don't want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

Don DeLillo

#18. here he dug in his pockets and produced a thimble, a root, two empty tin cans, three Indian arrowheads, an apple peeler, a dried-up boll weevil, and a bent pocketknife.

James McBride

#19. There is more information in one thimble of reality
than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It is
beyond the human brain to understand the world and its
environment, so the brain compensates by creating simplified
illusions that act as a replacement for understanding.

Scott Adams

#20. Neutronium is so dense that a chunk the size of a thimble would weigh about 100 million tons.

Clifford A. Pickover

#21. Human language falls short of expressing all that He is, even as a thimble lacks capacity to hold Niagara Falls.

Blake Western

#22. My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

Eddie Izzard

#23. The universe will fill your cup ... if you carry a big cup, a little cup, or a thimble!

Sonia Choquette

#24. What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

Wilford Brimley

#25. Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

Phyllis Bottome

#26. A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

Margaret Atwood

#27. And a true brass thimble. Mauma said the thimble would be mine one day. When she wasn't using it, I wore it on my fingertip like a jewel.

Sue Monk Kidd

#28. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Remy De Gourmont

#29. 'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.

Mark Burnett

#30. You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.

Carolyn Wells

#31. What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.

Patrick Rothfuss

#32. To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#33. You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear

Max Lucado