Thumbscrew Quotes

#1. In the cell was a rack, a winch, a furnace, a set of branding irons, a pot for melting wax, nails of different lengths. A thumbscrew, a pair of flesh-tongs, heavy tweezers, a set of surgical instruments, a series of small metal trays, ropes, wire, preparations of quicklime, a hood and a blindfold.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.

Virginia Woolf

#3. You can't hit a target you can't see. You can't accomplish wonderful things with your life if you have no idea of what they are. You must first become absolutely clear about what you want if you are serious about unlocking the extraordinary power that lies within you. Every

Brian Tracy

#4. As long as you don't kill someone or seriously maim them, sure, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you have a good time.

S.A. Tawks

#5. One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

George Orwell

#6. Guard your children's free time - from you.

Gretchen Rubin

#7. Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise.

Chris Matakas

#8. If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Magnitude -15 A drifting mote of dust coming to rest on a table Sometimes it's nice not to destroy the world for a change.

Randall Munroe

#10. Huddersfield will want to win this one.

Ron Atkinson

#11. Even an acknowledgment from someone who hates him is better than having no one but strangers watch him perish.

Neal Shusterman

#12. Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

William Shakespeare

#13. And I'm calling in a favor. (Savitar)
Sav, you can't keep doing this. I'm running out of places to put the bodies. (Takeshi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. I'm not doing anything with him." "Well, maybe you should. Just don't tell me about it. And make sure there's at least a one million dollar donation to MCA involved.

Zack Love

#15. They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.

Larry Nelson

#16. I love writing about monsters and food.

Nnedi Okorafor

#17. Data don't generate theory - only researchers do that.

Henry Mintzberg