Thumbing Your Nose Quotes

#1. 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

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

Jules Laforgue

#3. A heavy silence was followed by a vibration beneath their feet and Iko's voice. I don't compute.

Marissa Meyer

#4. ( ... )"Flapper" - the notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoked cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs, where she danced in a shockingly immodest fashion with a revolving cast of male suitors.

Joshua Zeitz

#5. Some fifteen percent of the 6,500 staff members working at Auschwitz would eventually be convicted of war crimes, with the government of Poland being among the most active in investigating and prosecuting war criminals.

Larry Berg

#6. The unseen essential can be described in many ways and comes in many forms, but is always preceded by virtue.

Bryant McGill

#7. I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

Paul Graham

#8. It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

Rich Cohen

#9. Thou canst say, who hast seen that same expression on the face dearest to thee;-that look indescribable, hopeless, unmistakable, that says to thee that thy beloved is no longer thine.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#10. Turning Hope into Possibilities

Carlton Young

#11. He had a tenderness in him, and a streak of poetry, and she knew he loved the land for far more than its ability to sustain him.

Linda Lael Miller

#12. She ... grabbed her bra, clasping it and shoving her arms through.
"Ye harness your udders?" The man was insufferable.
"For your information, it's a bra - short for brassiere, something that wasn't invented until the twentieth century.

Amy Jarecki

#13. 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

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

Wallace Stegner

#15. Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

Pope Francis

#16. He heard her in his heart - whispering from the mist

John Geddes

#17. 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

#18. 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