Twiddling Quotes

#1. Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again ... and again ... and again ...

J.K. Rowling

#2. No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play 'Creep'. Get over it.

Noel Gallagher

#3. I have had my share of twiddling my thumbs while sitting idle at home

Ranvir Shorey

#4. I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.

Sara Paxton

#5. We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.

V.C. Andrews

#6. Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.

Zeena Parkins

#7. There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can't be avoided.

Gina Bellman

#8. I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.

Barbara Bush

#9. You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

Robert M. Pirsig

#10. Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don't know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be 'Mad-Eye.' Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night.

J.K. Rowling

#11. Eileen says what they should really do, if they want to be fair about it, is offer a Bible study class for credit, and let us take that instead of sitting an extra hour in study hall, twiddling our so-called opposable thumbs.

Laura Moriarty

#12. Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

John W. Gardner

#13. I could see exactly what must have happened. Insert a liberal dose of mixed spirits in a normally abstemious man, and he becomes a force. He does not stand around, twiddling his fingers and stammering. He acts. I

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. Ah!' said David, twiddling his fingers with glee as she poured him a cup. 'May the sun shine upon your splendid bosom in all eight kingdoms, Sarah lass!

Henry H. Neff

#15. Hmm. I really hope I don't sound condescending - that means talking down to someone - but, you know, you really shouldn't believe everything you think.

Suzanne Wright

#16. But he was not kidnapped ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality.

Gerard Latortue

#17. What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow.

Lucius Beebe

#18. Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.

Dane DeHaan

#19. At length for my seared and writhing body there was no longer an inch of foothold on the firm floor of the prison. I struggled no more, but the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long, and final scream of despair. I felt that I tottered upon the brink
I averted my eyes

Edgar Allan Poe

#20. I would love to do Tammi Terrell's story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

#21. You kissed me.' I tear my eyes away from the mirror to face her. We are close, so close standing here. My lungs might be carved out of granite, cast from bronze, the way they refuse to expand, to fill with air.
'You kissed me back,' says Kat softly.
I nod. There's nothing more to say.

Elissa Janine Hoole