Thumbing Their Nose Quotes

#1. The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Ernest Istook

#2. There is something about all beards that is like the gesture of thumbing the nose. Thank you very much. Up yours.

Wallace Stegner

#3. In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds.

Howard Kurtz

#4. What had happened was going to be always on me, in me, as permanent as one of Roberta's tattoos. "Dolores," I said. I repeated my name over and over until it sounded warped and unreal. I was never going to be myself again.

Wally Lamb

#5. The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

Bodhidharma

#6. No armor. No buckles. Only a few layers of cotton and ten feet of parlor separated his mouth from her breasts.

Meljean Brook

#7. If you want easy, you came to the wrong man. I don't do easy. I do worth-it.

Anonymous

#8. Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

William Graham Sumner

#9. Certainly no one can deny that we have such an idea of God in ourselves unless they think that there is no knowledge at all of God in human minds.

Rene Descartes

#10. And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

Jules Laforgue

#11. The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to culture, a resistant throwback to a natural past; it is itself a cultural, the cultural product.

Elizabeth Grosz

#12. Why do I hate her so much? Why do I care, in any way, what went on in her head?

Margaret Atwood

#13. We see this tendency to throw off restraints in life, in art - it's an inglorious gesture of thumbing the nose - it makes me laugh ...

John Geddes

#14. There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies. If Saddam persists in thumbing his nose at the inspectors, then we're clearly going to have to do something about it.

Howard Dean

#15. We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.

Susan Hampshire

#16. I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

Gianni Versace

#17. The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to provoke a fight and just to provoke it like thumbing your nose at someone else and going, What are you gonna do about it?

David Byrne

#19. If you have clutter in your real life, your tangible life, then it really adds to the emotional clutter in your mind.

Giuliana Rancic