Thumbed His Nose Quotes

#1. Learn to see and love every human with the eyes and heart of God.

Suzy Kassem

#2. Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?

Mary E. Pearson

#3. All politicians lie;
some of them steal too.
30+ year Washington columnist

John A. McCormick

#4. History shows: Whenever people try to pull you down, you will reach peaks of success. You just need the ability to ignore.

Debalina Haldar

#5. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

Simon Sinek

#6. Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

Tony Snow

#8. This surrender isn't a one-time thing but is continually embraced over a lifetime. There will be an initial surrendering to God, breaking the self. God will keep this process current through circumstances, helping us to continue to deny ourselves.

Ryan Shaw

#9. You're sunny. You keep showing up here." Diver
"I'm not sunny, I'm alcohol. No, no, I mean, I'm Summer," Summer says.
"Don't say that," the little boy said, suddenly frightened. "You're disturbing my wa.

Katherine Applegate

#10. Someone's got to do these things,' he said sullenly. 'Or else fate would not ever get nose-thumbed and mankind would still be clinging to the top branches of a tree.

John Steinbeck

#11. I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

Deborah Eisenberg

#12. Most adults don't sing anymore. We have to break that, and start singing the name of the Almighty One, try to cultivate the emotions. We have to elevate our emotions to the maximum, to the limit, and that then turns into spiritual bliss.

Dharma Mittra

#13. We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

Julia Child

#14. The rain lashed down upon Brentford and Pope Alexander VI raised his massive arm and pointed towards Archroy and the young priest. 'You, I will make an example of,' he roared. 'You will know the exquisite agonies of lingering death.' Archroy thumbed his nose. 'Balls,' said he.

Robert Rankin

#15. We are all cabinets of wonders.

Brian Selznick

#16. Laughter is the ultimate emotion of openness. When you laugh, you release your fears, abandon your hatred and let down your guard to embrace the flow of the Universe.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#17. The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

Oscar Wilde